Sir, We await your improved model for process control and the operating system that implements it.
Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson At 18:51 2002-03-19, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >I don't see it that the source of the problem is the implementation of >fork/vfork; the way I see it the very *concept* of forking makes little to >no sense. I've written a lot of code, and not once have I thought to >myself, "ok, now what I want to do here is duplicate the current process >in almost exactly its current state." Maybe it made more sense back in >the day, or maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me there's a lot >more efficient ways to do multithreading/multi"process"ing/IPC/etc (or >better yet avoid them altogether) these days. > >-- >Gary R. Van Sickle >Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/