Re: Part 2: System Structure

[Bas Wijnen]

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 04:12:26PM +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote:
> > Who pays for the resources is a different question.  Childness is for me
> > defined by who performs the system call.
> > 
> 
> "system call" is a very ambiguous name here. It includes several
> assumptions of what the kernel is and how you call it.

Well, the kernel holds a list of threads.  Creating a new process aims to add
a new thread to that list.  This will eventually be done by some system call
into the kernel, after which the kernel will add the thread to the list.
That's the call I'm talking about.

Thanks,
Bas

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