Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: amd2@ukc.ac.uk (A.M.Douglas)
Subject: spawn/fork using CS-Tools C.
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 12:03:10 GMT
Message-ID: <9098@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>

I was wondering if anyone has found a way of spawning/forking processes
using CS-Tools C on a meiko Transputer surface.

My specific problem is that I'm adding the LINDA primitives to two
programming languages.  One of the primitives is eval, which spawns
a process to execute a command, and places the result into a tuple
space (a shared memory, implemented as a set of processes).  At
present, the idea is to have the tuple space running on the meiko,
and use a Sun workstation to execute user processes (which may 
interact with the tuple space), but a more optimal solution would
be to run spawned tasks on the meiko itself.

I would be most grateful for any suggestions or references.

Thanks,

Andrew Douglas.


