On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Adam Thornton wrote:

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>> On Aug 2, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 2, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Fork has served us well for more than five decades; I've got no argument with that. However, should we never question whether it continues to be the right, or best, abstraction as the environment around it continues to evolve?
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>> An os with no fork() can be used to reimplement fork() for backward
>> compatibility. You will anyway need all the things fork() used to do
>> in this brave new world.
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> Oh man, now I’m having flashbacks to early Cygwin and what was that, DJGPP for OS/2?
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> Well, I picked a lousy week to give up sniffing glue anyway.
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> Adam

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