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Have you read an "OS book" written recently?
by yau8edq12i 3y ago
Have you read an "OS book" written recently?
- stefan_ 3y agoWe shall open the Tanenbaum, now in its fifth edition circa 2023, no doubt still taught to students all over the world: > Processes are created in Linux in an especially simple manner. The fork system call creates an exact copy of the original process. > The Linux sequence of clone plus exec is yet more orthogonal, since even more fine-grained building blocks are available. As a general rule, having a small number of orthogonal elements that can be combined in many ways leads to a small, simple, and elegant system. Yup, still the same bullshit. It is not elegant, it is not fine-grained, it is not simple, it is certainly not small.
- yau8edq12i 3y agoThat book is decades old. New editions rarely change this type of fluff.