Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Unix on the Amiga
Message-ID: <1932@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 10:14:06 GMT
References: <8805042034.AA15057@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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I said (emphasis added):
:_Don't_tell_me_that_AmigaDOS_tasks_are_more_efficient_, or more powerful,
:or less filling. I think they taste great myself. The point remains that
:fork() is not compatible with them.
:
:Consider this a challenge, if you like... I don't think it's possible to
:implement fork on the Amiga in the general case.

In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) replied:
> 	I never liked fork() anyway.  It is cute conceptually but not very
> powerful.... more like wastefull.

I know it's less filling. I just said that, Matt. Argh.

The problem is that if you're going to emulate UNIX on the Amiga (see that
there Subject: line?) you need to emulate fork(). There's no question about
it. It's one of the core system calls.

A side note: why did Manx implement "fexec" but not "system"? "System" is
a much better mapping for the AmigaDOS "Execute()" function than a nonstandard
fork/exec merge.
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