3 Aug
2021
3 Aug
'21
12:59 a.m.
On Aug 2, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
On Aug 2, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Oh man, now I’m having flashbacks to early Cygwin and what was that, DJGPP for OS/2?
Well, I picked a lousy week to give up sniffing glue anyway.
Adam
Fork has served us well for more than five decades; I've got no argument with that.
However, should we never question whether it continues to be the right, or best,
abstraction as the environment around it continues to evolve?
An os with no fork() can be used to reimplement fork() for backward
compatibility. You will anyway need all the things fork() used to do
in this brave new world.