Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc.

Tandem Computers Incorporated

Siddhesh Jere

Jeffrey Dale Merrick

Sudesh Saoji

Cheng-Yu Huang

An operating system is simulated to run in conjunction with a native operating system, allowing processes, particularly multi-threaded processes, originally developed for the simulated operating system to be ported to the environment of the native operating system with a minimum of effort. In their natural environment the processes being ported have the capability of requesting that other processes be terminated. This capability is provided in the simulated system and in a multi-threaded environment of the simulated system. Processes executing in the simulated system, even if multi-threaded, also have the capability of protecting against being stopped when executing critical code.

Method of terminating temporarily unstoppable code executing in a multi-threaded simulated operating system

An operating system is simulated to run in conjunction with a native operating system, allowing processes originally developed for the operating system being simulated to be ported to the environment of the native operating system with a minimum of effort. In the event a ported process attempts to communicate with a terminated process before the simulated operating system is notified of the termination, the attempt at communication will return an error. In response, a series of checks are performed to determine if the error was the result of termination of the process with which communication was attempted, or a more serious error that should be reported to the native operating system for action to protect the integrity of data.

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Siddhesh Jere