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From: roland@cochise
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Implementing `fork' in a single address space
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Date: 13 Dec 89 13:14:24 GMT
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pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:

>I'm having problems figuring out how to implement `fork' correctly in
>one address space.  Perhaps it's impossible.

>Perhaps a related question:

>* Are there any pd (public-domain, or freeware) micro-unicies that I
>  can look at?

You might look for the source-available unix-lookalike "Minix" by
Andy Tanenbaum ( published by Prentice Hall ).

  The problem of implementing the fork call on the Atari ST has been
disputed here on the net rather lengthy.


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