A proposal for certain process management and intercommunication primitives
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
The multics interprocess communication facility
SOSP '69 Proceedings of the second symposium on Operating systems principles
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In any computer system primitive functions are needed to control the actions of processes in the system. This thesis discusses a set of six such process control primitives which are sufficient to solve many of the problems involved in parallel processing as well as in the efficient multiplexing of system resources among the many processes in a system. In particular, the thesis documents the work performed in implementing these primitives in a computer system, the Multics system, which is being developed at Project MAC of M.I.T. During the course of work that went into the implementation of these primitives, design problems were encountered which caused the overall design of the programs involved to go through two iterations before the performance of these programs was deemed acceptable. The thesis discusses the way design of these program evolved over the course of work.