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From: naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: light-weight processes in Unix
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 22:18:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 17 22:18:42 1987
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dms@hermes.ai.mit.EDU writes:

>We'd like to add some kind of light-weight process support to our Sun
>3.2 system. What we would like to have is the ability to fork off a
>procedure (not a fully linked program) that shares the full address
>space of the parent process.

There was a paper on "Light Weight Processes in Unix" (I think that
was the title) in the Summer '85 Usenix conference in Portland, Oregon.
It was written by people at Sun and it involved linking your program
to a modified C library. They intend for the same primitives to work
in a kernel implemented by light weight processes, but I think they
have implemented only a user level version so far.

		 Naim Abdullah
		 Dept. of EECS,
		 Northwestern University
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