Mach Threads and the Unix Kernel: The Battle for Control

Mach Threads and the Unix Kernel: The Battle for Control (1987)

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by Avadis Tevanian , Jr. , Richard F. Rashid , David B. Golub , David L. Black , Eric Cooper , Michael W. Young

Venue:	in Proceedings of the USENIX Summer Conference, USENIX Association
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TITLE	Mach Threads and the Unix Kernel: The Battle for Control	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Avadis Tevanian	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Jr.	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Richard F. Rashid	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	David B. Golub	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	David L. Black	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Eric Cooper	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Michael W. Young	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science; Carnegie-Mellon University	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	Pittsburgh, PA 15213	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	This paper examines a kernel implemented lightweight process mechanism built for the Mach operating system. The pros and cons of such a mechanism are discussed along with the problems encountered during its implementation. 1. Introduction The early Unix notion of process was based on the hardware abstraction of its day: a single CPU executing within a memory address space. Even today, although, multiprocessors are becoming increasingly common, neither Unix System V nor 4.3 BSD provide a way to manage more than one thread of control within an address space. The addition of lightweight processes to Unix would provide many advantages. In fact, the lack of kernel support has caused Unix programmers to implement a variety of coroutine packages to support multi-stack applications. Lightweight threads of control can allow a programmer to encapsulate computations with their stack state and thus achieve greater modularity. Research systems, such as THOTH [2] and its successor, Stanford's V Ker...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1987	INFERENCE
VENUE	in Proceedings of the USENIX Summer Conference, USENIX Association	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	185--197	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	5 found	ParsCit 1.0