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From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] fork (Re: Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 21:20:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2108022120010.20459@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B352BC-D2A3-4AE0-B01E-2A13DB1BE816@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, Adam Thornton wrote:

>
>
>> On Aug 2, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>
> Oh man, now I’m having flashbacks to early Cygwin and what was that, DJGPP for OS/2?
>
> Well, I picked a lousy week to give up sniffing glue anyway.
>
> Adam

EMX.

-uso.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-03  1:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-02  2:42 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2021-08-02 14:58 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-08-02 18:15   ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-02 18:24     ` Warner Losh
2021-08-02 20:55     ` John Cowan
2021-08-02 21:06       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 21:25         ` Dan Cross
2021-08-02 21:59           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-02 22:33             ` John Cowan
2021-08-03  0:20           ` [TUHS] fork (Re: " Bakul Shah
2021-08-03  0:59             ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-03  1:20               ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2021-08-03  0:21     ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2021-08-03  1:49       ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03  3:21         ` Adam Thornton
2021-08-03  3:27         ` Bakul Shah
2021-08-03  3:51           ` Jon Steinhart
2021-08-03  7:19   ` arnold
2021-08-03 23:12     ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-08-04 15:04       ` Paul Winalski

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