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On 13 Feb 90 15:23:26 GMT, koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) said:

Steve> Also, try giving it boatloads of stack.

I hate this approach.  Stack space can eat resources FAST.  Be
dynamic, dude.  Put *pointers* on your stack, and AllocMem.  Much
nicer.  Less likely to crash, too...

Steve> In other words, its not my fault! really!  :-)

Sure, sure...  :-)

Steve> And while we're discussing wish lists, can I have a fork()
Steve> command (the real thing, not the Lattice forkv() stuff) so I
Steve> can say:

Steve>       if (fork() == 0) {
Steve>          /* here's the child process */
Steve>       } else {
Steve>          /* here's the parent process */
Steve>       }

Well, I'm working on it.  It's complex, but NOT impossible.  I've got
a solution for memory swapping (if it's not obvious, don't ask.  Ugly
kludge, but absolutely necessary.) but there's still some work to do.
Besides, I'm working on fork() as a base for Amigix, and I have to do
exec() too.

Right now, high priorities are finishing the memory swapping,
implementing a filesystem (at first just a front end for AmigaDOS) and
proper fd semantics, pid's, finishing the memory swapping, and several
other things.  Then I have to write exec(), which involves (among
other things) writing a loader.  And possibly creating a new load file
format.

In any event, it won't be released soon, but anyone interested in
testing (only) with NO redistribution during development, is welcome
to send me mail and I'll consider it.  (If I don't know you, don't
count on the alpha-test list.  maybe beta.)  [Steve, I might put you
on the alpha list if you're interested.]

Deven
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