[pups] Swap device in V6?

[Dave Horsfall]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Roger Ivie wrote:

> It is indeed the case that V6 needs swap to fork. Forking in V6 is done
> essentially by swapping the task out to disk and (oops!) forgetting to
> delete the in-core copy. At least, that's how it looked to me.

Yes, that's how it was done, leading to the dreaded "panic: swap".  I
think the swapped image became the parent, and the in-core one the child,
hence the child was pretty well guaranteed to run before the parent (it
typically did an exec() afterwards).

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