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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1998
Cheng-Yu Huang, Fremont, CA (US);
Siddhesh Jere, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey D. Merrick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sudesh Saoji, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
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.