At 4:56 PM -0700 6/19/97, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>I am coming to the reluctant conclusion that the only really workable
>solution is to fabricate all of the new objects for the frame at the
>time the frame type is changed. Thus, one has "zero processes" and
>"zero node" entries in the checkpoint area, by which we mean objects
>whose state is whatever the proper initial state should be.
KeyKOS did it this way for nodes. Of course, the only time the frame-type is changed in KeyKOS, is when the disk is formatted. :-)
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