| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 8 Aug 2000 at 18:26:15 |
| Subject: | Re: fork() (Was: Re: AMIOPEN: ave_open()) |
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 09:54:04AM -0700, Patrick Roberts wrote:
> > All I have to add to this is:
> >
> > The function which I created (ixemul_exec()) can do everything that
> > is necessary to emulate fork()/exec(), so I see no reason to try to
> > implement fork() or vfork().
> >
>
> Resource sharing. The parent and child processes all share the same physical
> memory for data until one does a write. (At least under Linux and IRIX)
There are other ways to achieve this. Well, to end this, I will not stop
anyone to write fork() for Ami but *I* won't write it :-) Begging is
futile. You will be ignored.