Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
Subject: Re: Dynamic Process Management
Organization: W.Z.I.
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 03:47:10 GMT
Message-ID: <CrF6In.2Hx@wizzy.com>

>foong@cse.unsw.edu.au (Wai Keong Foong) writes:
>> 
>> Hi, has anyone done any work on dynamic process creation, much like
>> your Unix fork where the child process practically inherits all
>> information from the parent, on the transputer? Also, how about
>> dynamic process migration? Appreciate any pointers in this direction.
>>

Jan Erik Nilsen <jen@jenilsen.priv.no> wrote:

>Dynamic process creation is not difficult, just ProcAlloc and go!
>(Inmos C Toolkit), but I have got throuble to make threads. Anyone
>can commit suicide, but only the most clever ones can remove the body
>afterwards. I tried to have a funeral process clean it up, but the
>throughput was low. Anyone with experience?

Isn't there ProcPar as well ? If you run a process sequentially after
the ProcPar it can free all the space that was malloc'd for those
processes. No messy corpses.

Cheers,       Andy.

