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Article #12237Re: Process vs Task
From: John Kaminski
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 02:49
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 02:49
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In article <8459@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >I don't think there is *ever* a reason to use a Task instead of >a Process---or am I wrong? > >-tom Possibly several. The two that come to mind are the scarcity of the resources involved. If you are running a (gasp) 256K (i.e. original) Amiga, the less memory you use the better. Also, aren't there only 20 process slots? Or are those only processes that are CLI's? Or is there no difference in THOSE two? Around the LoadSeg() problem: One could conceivably AllocMem() for new process space then use a memory copying routine to clone the needed parts, and finding the address of the stuff to copy via FindTask(0) and "peeking into" the struct that is pointed to by the results obtained from that call. Hmmmm....this method has some definite possibilities for emulating fork().
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!sunybcs!ugkamins From: ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Process vs Task Message-ID: <5279@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 15 Apr 89 02:49:05 GMT References: <8459@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: ugkamins@sunybcs.UUCP (John Kaminski) Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 16