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by billsix
2015 days ago
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From watching the Ted talk, I think that Linus was using a cs101 example to effectively communicate to a large audience of programmers about good design for system level work such as for an Operating System. His example, I think, can be extrapolated to explain the design of Linux’s “clone” system call for threads, which creates a new process that uses the same virtual address space as the parent process, with a different stack location; but more importantly, those “threads” are scheduled by the OS’s scheduler like any other process is. I’m unaware of any other OS which implements threads this cleanly. From his talk, “Sometimes you can see a problem in a different way and rewrite it so that a special case goes away” https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/launching-linux-threads-a... |
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I believe this comes from Plan 9.