Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Fork of a Different Color Message-ID: <1315@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 13:53:28 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1315 Posted: Tue Aug 20 13:53:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:02:16 EDT References: <810@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 19 A couple of us U of MD hackers were making random comments about Unix, lightweight processes, and so forth, and we decided that Unix needs some new system calls to round it out: fork() - make a copy of a process - modified: the new one would take an argument specifying whether the new process should share the old one's memory. knife() - cut apart shared memory spoon() - dip into another process's memory which I guess makes the virtual memory system a plate and the hardware a table.... :-) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland (I can't believe I said that.)