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Foil 12 Multithreading on Unix-compliant Operating Systems -- 5: IRIX "Threads"

From Threads with TCE in detail CPS600 Spring Semester95 -- April 1995. by Janusz Niemiec and Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

An interesting approach to multithreading has been proposed by the IRIX operating system from SGI.
  • A regular IRIX process can create a shared process group by calling sproc system call. The sproc call works similarly to a regular Unix fork, except that it creates a copy of the calling process which has the same address space for both the code and the data segments.
  • While it is not a multithreading according to a strict definition, it certainly has many aspects of it.


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