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Abstracts - 1997 ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE

Building Distributed Process Management on an Object-Oriented Framework

Ken Shirriff
Sun Microsystems, 2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043

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 object-oriented 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 programming in a commercial kernel.
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