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- Date: Fri, 27 May 94 10:21 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: Unblocking Fork
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- > It would be
- > SLOW but it would work.
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- and to fix the annoying deadlocks thats just enough. after all most
- programs that fork() don't run parent and child in parallel for long...
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- Hmm .. Could the granularity of a fork'ed process be changed? So that it
- is run less often, but runs longer .. so its CPU time is the same, but
- the system switches tasks to or from a forked process (when it would so
- all the memory copying) less often? It seems like it could be alot of
- memory copying, especially if parent and child are the only two tasks
- in the run state - you'd be copying memory back n forth more than you
- would be executing the program almost :-)
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