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Article #657Re: Standard libraries (was Re: SYSTEM)
From: David Hinds
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 22:26
Date: Tue, 01 May 1990 22:26
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In article <4764.263A91B8@puddle.fidonet.org> George.Emery@p42.f369.n105.z1.fidonet.org (George Emery) writes:
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>I'm thinking that there is a fundamental difference between libraries written
>for C and those for Modula-2. C presumes an operating system that can handle
>forks and multiple processes -- Modula-2 doesn't.
>
Wait - did I miss something here? Since when does C presume this? I
thought Modula-2 was the only "mainstream" language with multiprocessing
support in the "standard" or "typical" libraries. Don't just about all M2
compilers come with a "Processes" module, that can at least do some kind of
non-preemptive process control on single-threaded machines? I didn't think
C had anything like this; is there any kind of process control in the ANSI
standard?
-David Hinds
dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu
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