[ECOS] Re: Any shell available?

David N. Welton davidw@dedasys.com
Wed May 31 21:47:00 GMT 2006


>> 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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