From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Got thread experience?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:17:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A69C44-E7B9-42C6-AB6C-574B1A37F466@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a64622a14678bf8e85aca22e1f687f32@quanstro.net>
On Oct 25, 2007, at 5:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>>> under plan 9, don't we call those processes?
>>>
>>> that doesn't sound like any imbedded environment i've worked in.
>>> it's getting mighty fancy to have one set of pagetables. ;-)
>>>
>>
>> You're cute, but I'm trying to be serious.
>> It's an odd question, I know.
>
> well although i was being funny, the point was serious.
> what you describe -- loci of execution with seperate address
> spaces (page tables) are usually thought of as processes
> in unix-like environments. i would suspect that csp
> tools are available like send and recv?
>
> - erik
>
I have a book teaching development of an OS via a non-UNIX variant
that also applies to the share-a-page-table rule. I doubt there is
any with broken rules - except ones with no idea of threads, in which
there would only be processes. Oh well, too many specifics for every
generalization.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 20:48 don bailey
2007-10-25 20:51 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-25 21:01 ` don bailey
2007-10-25 21:06 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-25 21:13 ` don bailey
2007-10-25 21:17 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-25 21:17 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2007-10-25 21:05 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-10-25 21:12 ` don bailey
2007-10-25 21:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-25 21:44 ` roger peppe
2007-10-25 23:30 ` Andy Newman
2007-10-26 15:30 ` don bailey
2007-10-25 22:12 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-25 21:35 ` Sape Mullender
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