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From: "David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com>
To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Cc: Luis Friedrich <fernando@inf.ufsc.br>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	  Anthony Tonizzo <atonizzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Any shell available?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447E0E9F.4090108@dedasys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447D8356.6060804@inf.ufsc.br>


>> To me, that is more like a boot loader and less like a shell, although
>> what you describe is somewhere between the two. To be a shell, what
>> has been loaded must be able to exist and be unloaded, and you must be
>> able to load something else which can exist and be unloaded,
>> add-infinitum. For this you need processes, not threads.

A system like Erlang manages to have "processes", a shell, and a lot of
other things typically associated with real processes all inside one big
process...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-31 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-31  1:02 Anthony Tonizzo
2006-05-31  8:37 ` Andrew Lunn
2006-05-31 11:51   ` Luis Friedrich
2006-05-31 12:20     ` Andrew Lunn
2006-05-31 16:42     ` Anthony Tonizzo
2006-05-31 21:47     ` David N. Welton [this message]
2006-05-31 18:28 Zimman, Chris
2006-06-02 10:47 ` Ilija Koco
     [not found]   ` <44805E04.2040400@mindspring.com>
2006-06-02 16:19     ` Ilija Koco
     [not found] <3B530EF12E388B408ECC3162BA8C00F401BBE726@ny2526.corp.bloomberg. com>
     [not found] ` <3B530EF12E388B408ECC3162BA8C00F401BBE726@ny2526.corp.bloomberg .com>
2006-05-31 22:28   ` John Carter

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