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forkforkPosted Oct 3, 2012 17:47 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: fork by ballombe Parent article: An Interview with Brian Kernighan (InformIT)
> The fork causes the child to get a snapshot of the data. The child displays the data graphically.
Shared memory.
> this does not make Windows a UNIX platform. The situation is increasingly similar on OS X.
Nobody cares about an OS being a "UNIX platform". People care about an OS being able to run useful software. Forking in a GUI program and doing GUI things in the child *just ain't useful*.
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fork Posted Oct 3, 2012 20:37 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] ...Shared memory. What part of "snapshot" is unclear?
fork Posted Oct 4, 2012 15:28 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Wouldn't MAP_PRIVATE work for that? (curious, I've never tried)
fork Posted Oct 4, 2012 19:23 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331) [Link]
MAP_PRIVATE only works once. You can't use it to create multiple versioned snapshots.
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