9 Aug
2001
9 Aug
'01
5:16 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Dave McGuire once stated:
On August 9, Carlos Murillo wrote:
Depends upon the Unix system. Under Linux, fork() is actually a front end
to clone(), which is used to make both threads or processes (and even stuff
in between)---it really depends upon what is copied and what is shared
between the parent and child.
Thread support under Unix (pick your system) is dreadful (and no, pthreads
isn't a solution (icky icky p-tang!)). Then again, if it wasn't in Unix V6,
then it's not supported well at all!
-spc (And can you explain the insanely different command line parameters
to ls (typical Unix command line), find and dd? All three, I think
are POSIX to some degree 8-)
>DCL is a very complete command language.
There's a lot that can be
>done directly that require external programs in Unix shells.
...
By the way, I think that requiring external
programs in Unix isn't
necessarily a disadvantage, as long as such programs are standard in
every U'x. And many are, thanks to POSIX.
You're not familiar with the overhead associated with fork()/vfork(),
are you Carlos.