Post #4306971
2026-08-01 03:43 UTC
@regehr@mastodon.social @lindsey@recurse.social You mean `unexec`, right?
(Fun fact:)
/*
* unexec.c - Convert a running program into an a.out file.
*
* Author: Spencer W. Thomas
* Computer Science Dept.
* University of Utah
* Date: Tue Mar 2 1982
* Modified heavily since then.
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@eeide@scholar.social 2026-08-01 03:45
@regehr@mastodon.social @lindsey@recurse.social Another fun fact: my undergraduate OS course was taught by Spencer Thomas. This probably affected me badly.
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@psimpson@mastodon.social 2026-08-01 05:08
@eeide@scholar.social @regehr@mastodon.social @lindsey@recurse.social as a side job at university in Andrew Tanenbaum’s group, I was paid to port some applications to Minix. It was going great until I got to Emacs and unexec…