Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!husc6!bunny!cayman!brad From: brad@cayman.COM (Brad Parker) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: ST Minix - how does it fork? Message-ID: <1677@cayman.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 14:18:03 GMT Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma Lines: 19 Could the person who ported minix to the ST please send me some mail? I would like to have quick discussion about how forking is done; i.e. what the strategy for copying that code, text and bss segments is. I was all set with my 68000 mmu code when someone asked why it can't be done like the amiga port. I was already with some snappy answers when I decided to drop back 10 and find out if someone else has a better idea. Sometimes those snappy answers are just dogma ;-) Don't you have to copy the text and bss segments back "down to zero" each time you schedule the process to run? Is this not slow as molassas? -brad -- Brad Parker Cayman Systems, Inc. Cambridge, Ma. brad@cayman.com