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

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <31756 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd at bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:

>There should be at least three ways to start multiprocessing:  fork(),
>thread(), and spawn().

Can someone explain how a thread differs from a fork, and whether the
difference is desirable compared to forks with shared text, copy-on-write
data, and the ability to explicitly request shared memory for data?

Les Mikesell