From cd782d77c1e90976cb6dacf6ba78ba762f145a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:39:28 +0100 Subject: Been reading another LWN issue... --- persistency.mdwn | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'persistency.mdwn') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3