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From: ram@lcuxlm.ATT.COM (Miani Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Signals after exec
Summary: title of paper
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Date: 27 Feb 89 17:42:36 GMT
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In article <941@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes:
> 
> This was my initial reaction, too, but then I remembered a paper at the
> Winter USENIX conference that presented something called "variable-weight
> processes."  This paper very neatly unified the model of a thread and a
> process by defining groups of resources, including memory map, file
> descriptors, signals, and other resources, that could be shared between

I think the paper was entitled "Lightweight Processes" if that helps anyone. I
have a copy somewhere ... I'll try and dig it up for those that want it...