4.9. Processes and the Prompt

Self processes are managed by a simple preemptive round-robin scheduler. Processes can be stepped, suspended, resumed, terminated, or put to sleep for a specified amount of time. Also, the stack of a suspended process can be examined and the CPU use of a process can be determined. A process can be created by sending fork to a message.

The prompt object takes input from stdin and spawns a process to evaluate the message. Input to the prompt is kept in a history list so that past input can be replayed, similar to the history mechanism in many Unix shells.

Modules: process, scheduler, semaphore, prompt, history