On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:29:16PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:03:36PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 18/05/2006 hora 13:30:
> > > > That's always the parent, but not in the same way.
> > > As I just wrote in a separate e-mail, that's not how I use the word
> > > "parent".
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but you may be the only one.
> 
> That would not be good.  However, I don't see how any other definition could
> make sense.  You say the parent is the one which provides the storage.  Why?
> Why not the one which provides the CPU time?  Or any other resource?

How about using the terms that Jonathan uses:

  Requester: the process that asks the "foo constructor" to
       instantiate a new process that executes the "foo" application
  Constructor: the process that does the instantiation
  Yield: the process instantiated by the constructor.

That way there's no "parent" to get confused about!


  Sam


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