andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US (Andrew Ernest) (03/31/91)
In article <1991Mar29.141629.9239@hubcap.clemson.edu> ibmman@eng.clemson.edu ((the) IBMMAN) writes: >I have never heard of one, and I think it would be extremely difficult to >write one due to the fact that there can be multiple data segments. I'm I don't know the reason why os/2 doesn't have fork() but it ISN'T because there are multiple data segments. Although they are now obsolete, there used to be UNIX systems which ran on 80286 systems. These systems allocated a new segment each time you called sbrk(). They had no problems with fork(). -- Andrew Ernest <andrew@ramona.Cary.NC.US>