Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ivan Godard" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel support for peer-to-peer protection models... | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:18:39 -0800 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org> To: "Ivan Godard" <igodard@pacbell.net> Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Kernel support for peer-to-peer protection models...
> Ivan Godard writes: > > > 3) flat, unified virtual addresses (64 bit) so that pointers, including > > inter-space pointers, have the same representation in all spaces > > How are you going to implement fork() ?
The usual COW using the page tables. The child keeps the same code space but gets a new data space. I expect that specialized versions of fork will give explicit control over which space the child gets, but in comman usage no one cases just as no one cares which PID it gets.
Ivan
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