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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:32:17 -0800
To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: OT: possible project/research project
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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.


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