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Building distributed process management on an object-oriented framework


Author(s) : Sun Microsystems Ken Shirriff, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1997
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : The Solaris MC distributed operating system provides a single-system image across a cluster of nodes, including distributed process management. It supports remote signals, waits across nodes, remote execution, and a distributed /proc pseudo file system. Process management in Solaris MC is implemented through an objectoriented interface to the process system. This paper has three main goals: it illustrates how an existing UNIX operating system kernel can be extended to provide distributed process support, it provides interfaces that may be useful for general access to the kernel's process activity, and it gives experience with object-oriented,