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- Submitted-by: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
-
- For those who have been following this issue, last week's meeting of
- 1003.1 decided that [qv]fork() would be dropped from the next draft of
- 1003.1a, the extensions to POSIX.1. It will be replaced in the next
- or a subsequent draft with a proposal for a spawn() family, analogous to
- the exec() family. Work already done by 1003.5 (Ada bindings) on an
- interface of this type will be taken into account, and the opportunity
- will be taken to address some very knotty problems which arise when one
- thread out of many in a single process decides to replace the whole
- process image. Threads are strictly a 1003.4 (realtime) issue, but it
- makes sense for any new interface proposed by 1003.1 in this area
- make life easier for 1003.4, rather than more difficult. (Cue 1003.4
- folks, to tell us all what a pig fork-exec is in a multi-threaded
- process.)
- --
- Dominic Dunlop
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 69
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-