Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!awdprime!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: fork and preallocation (was Re: Paging page tables) Message-ID: <2845@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 23 Jul 90 16:03:46 GMT References: <58330@bbn.BBN.COM> <5928@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 14 In article <5928@titcce.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: >In article <58330@bbn.BBN.COM> > lkaplan@BBN.COM (Larry Kaplan) writes: >>>[ deeply nested crud that we're all tired of reading] Why not agree to disagree? Some people don't want their programs to run unless they are absolutely guaranteed that it will finish. The rest of us like things to run as often as possible even when troubled with the occasional failure due to lack of resources. Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM tif@doorstop, sc30661@ausvm6 512/838-7008 | ...!cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!auschs!doorstop.austin.ibm.com!tif