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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100 |
| commit | cd782d77c1e90976cb6dacf6ba78ba762f145a50 (patch) | |
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Been reading another LWN issue...
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diff --git a/persistency.mdwn b/persistency.mdwn index f5347a4e..36f90c8a 100644 --- a/persistency.mdwn +++ b/persistency.mdwn @@ -1,18 +1,19 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] A persistent object is an object that survives reboot. On [[Unix]], files and directories are persistent but -processes and file descriptors are not. [[microkernel/EROS]] is +processes and [[unix/file_descriptor]]s are not. [[microkernel/EROS]] is an example of an orthogonally persistent system: -processes and capabilities also survive reboot. To a +processes and [[capabilities|capability]] also survive reboot. To a process, it generally only looks as if it had not been scheduled for a long time; the rest of its environment remains essentially the indistinguishable. |