Implementing `fork' in a single address space
David Keppel
pardo at cs.washington.edu
Sun Dec 10 06:30:19 AEST 1989
I'd like to write a micro-unix to run in a single Un*x address space.
I'm having problems figuring out how to implement `fork' correctly in
one address space. Perhaps it's impossible. I'm willing to have
stack frames point at the other guy's data, but the only ways that I
can think of to get stacks to return right are:
* To walk back the stack and patch up the retunr addresses -- scary!
* Have all stacks live at one place in the address space. That
requries swapping stacks at every context switch.
Perhaps a related question:
* Are there any pd (public-domain, or freeware) micro-unicies that I
can look at? I remember that you used to be able to get a 3-ring
binder with the version 6 source, but I don't know if you had to
have a source liscence and all that.
Thoughts? Thanks!
;-D on ( Unix is a tratemark of Bell Laboratories ) Pardo
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