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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Interprocess Communication / Multitasking
Message-ID: <15345@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 23:49:44 GMT
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Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <320@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US), by wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker):
) In article <mark.666469192@typhoon.ucar.edu) bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu (Mark Bradford) writes:
))
))Here's the project: a real time data ingestion and archival system,
))built from several multitasking and cooperating programs using
))They say that UNIX is "notoriously lacking" in the necessary
))constructs to do this multitasking
) 
) UNIX lacks "lightweight processes," threads which execute within
) a single address space (alas) ...

Sun's "release 4" Unix, (an amalgam of BSD and ATT flavors), comes with
a lightweight process package. I've only looked at it long enough to
speculate, "I wouldn't have done it that way," but it may be just the
ticket for you. If you have a Sun workstation, say, "man lpw_create" to get
started.