A proposal for certain process management and intercommunication primitives
Gary D. Knott · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1974
Ed. Note: This paper is being published in two parts. Sections 1-6 present the basic primitives, and appear in this issue; Section 7, which applies the primitives to a number of examples, will be published in January. As in the past, the Bibliography has been included with the first part of the paper.-7-The notion of a process, and with it the possibilities for process intercommunication are fundamental in modern operating system design and, in disguised form, in proposals for languages which admit asynchrony. A straightforward repertoire of process