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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
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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
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Brad Parker
Cayman Systems, Inc.		Cambridge, Ma.			brad@cayman.com