From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: forking, Re: [COFF] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 16:34:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240512233454.GM9216@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W51WC0R-ZTFz_AC_UY5K1OAjqf6158tG0K5bK1ofhmxuw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 06:56:35PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> Similarly, this gives you the functionality of spawn, without the
> downside of a singularly complicated interface. Could you have
> implemented that in something as small as the PDP-7? Perhaps not, but
> it does not follow that `fork` now remains a good primitive.
Our spawnvp() implmentation is 40 lines of code. Worked fine everywhere.
I can post it if you like.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-12 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-10 16:36 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
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[not found] ` <CAEoi9W7FbGZFhiddHWWqdivGFfgFAj9nsUApomswfP56rqTMpQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20240511213532.GB8330@mit.edu>
2024-05-12 19:34 ` [TUHS] Re: [COFF] " Adam Thornton
2024-05-12 19:47 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-12 20:13 ` [TUHS] Re: forking, " John Levine
2024-05-12 22:56 ` Dan Cross
2024-05-12 23:34 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2024-05-13 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-05-13 13:21 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-13 3:29 ` Andrew Warkentin
2024-05-12 20:43 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-05-13 2:33 ` Alexis
2024-05-13 2:57 ` Warner Losh
2024-05-13 5:23 ` markus schnalke
2024-05-13 6:18 ` Andrew Warkentin
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