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Article #3449Re: Why fork? (long, was Re: IBM PC prehistory)
From: Peter R. Carpenter
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 22:58
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 22:58
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In article <1990Jan17.204433.18006@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Nope, sorry, wrong,
The tone of your posting sucks.
Read the preceding articles, the original poster asked a simple question:
Why can't fork/exec be done together?
I simply replied that there was such a beast, and pointed out that it is
not portable.
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Pete Carpenter, Cirrus Logic Inc, 1463 Centre Pointe Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!bu-cs!snorkelwacker!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!sun1102!pete From: pete@sun1102.UUCP (Peter R. Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why fork? (long, was Re: IBM PC prehistory) Message-ID: <1249@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 18 Jan 90 22:58:27 GMT References: <610@ssp11.idca.tds.philips.nl> <952@dms.UUCP> <1239@cirrusl.UUCP> <1990Jan17.204433.18006@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: pete@sun1102 (Pete Carpenter) Organization: CIRRUS LOGIC Inc. Lines: 16