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Fork (system call)

Known as: Fork(), Fork Paging, Clone (Linux system call) 
In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of… 
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2010
2010
New Advance of Local Fork Art in Construction of Rural Cultural Industrialization
2006
2006
Group-edf: a new approach and an efficient non-preemptive algorithm for soft real-time systems
Hard real-time systems in robotics, space and military missions, and control devices are specified with stringent and critical… 
2005
2005
A memory management approach for swapless embedded systems
Avoid the dreaded Out-of-Memory killer exception using these strategies for memory allocation. 
2005
2005
Asynchronous communication between threads
In programming there is sometimes a need to make computation interruptible by external events. This paper argues that a dedicated… 
2004
2004
Memory management for multi-threaded software DSM systems
Review
2002
Review
2002
Some Practical Suggestions for Performing Gaussian Benchmarks on a pSeries TM 690 System
Gaussian98 is a connected series of programs from Gaussian, Inc., that can perform a variety of semi-empirical, ab initio, and… 
2001
2001
Infrastructure for Load Balancing on Mosix Cluster
The complexity and size of software are increasing at a rapid rate. This results in the increase in build time and execution… 
1995
1995
Bounds and Approximations for Overheads in the Time to Join Parallel Forks
This paper studies the effects of overheads in massively parallel processing. The execution times for tasks on individual… 
1995
1995
PEACE Threads Interface On Microkernel
Recently, thread libraries have become powerful entities to support parallel programming on shared memory multiprocessors and… 
1990
1990
Transparent process migration in the Sprite operating system
The Sprite operating system allows executing processes to be moved between hosts at any time. We use this process migration… 
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