13 May
2024
13 May
'24
5:34 a.m.
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.