What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <31965 at bu-cs.BU.EDU>, madd at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) writes:
> Fork causes duplication of the data area and stack area.  Thread would
> only duplicate the stack area, the data area would be shared.

An efficient version of threads would not even duplicate the stack area...
instead the child would have a virgin stack, wit its starting address
passed from the parent. It's highlt desirable to make thread creation
a cheap process.
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