Re: Remote fork() and Parallel programming

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:55:11 +0100 (BST)


Victor and for that matter a lot of the other folk. Have a good look at
the DIPC patches before you judge them. They are relatively clean, they
are very easy to program with and they definitely work. In fact I got
bored enough to rebuild X11 with DIPC XShm objects to prove the point.

Try it, use it, judge it...

The argument for distributed shared memory objects isnt 'should we/shouldnt
we' its 'can you take the DIPC shared memory objects and push them efficiently
into user space without kernel support. That might be possible, though I
dont think you can with the other objects it provides.

Alan

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