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From: LK-KARI@FINTUVM.BITNET (Kari Sutela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Process outliving its parents
Message-ID: <743LK-KARI@FINTUVM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 11:17:29 GMT
References: <4596@freja.diku.dk> <5256@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
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In article <5256@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) says:
>
>If I recall from recent messages correctly, you want to do the exact same
>thing that PopCLI III does.  I don't know if that's on the Fish disks, but
>you should be able to pick it up, source code and all, from just about any-
>where, 'cuz I guess it's public domain.

Thanks, I'll look it up. But I'd like to create a Task, NOT a Process. It's
easy to create a process, I just use Manx's detach.o. But as the stuff I'm
doing doesn't need to be a process, Id rather create a Task.

This leads to a question: "Is this really significant? Are Tasks significantly
'lighter' than processes? How much overhead does a process cause over a task?"

I DON'T want to use LoadSeg() approach as both the parent and the task itself
are really small and it would seem useless to split it in two executables.

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