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diff --git a/persistency.mdwn b/persistency.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5347a4e --- /dev/null +++ b/persistency.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +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 +an example of an orthogonally persistent system: +processes and capabilities 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. |