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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-11-30 10:39:28 +0100
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
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-is included in the section entitled
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+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
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A persistent object is an object that survives reboot.
On [[Unix]], files and directories are persistent but
-processes and file descriptors are not. [[microkernel/EROS]] is
+processes and [[unix/file_descriptor]]s are not. [[microkernel/EROS]] is
an example of an orthogonally persistent system:
-processes and capabilities also survive reboot. To a
+processes and [[capabilities|capability]] also survive reboot. To a
process, it generally only looks as if it had not been
scheduled for a long time; the rest of its environment
remains essentially the indistinguishable.