Re: lightweight processes

[John R Ellis <Ellis@YALE.ARPA>]

    ...but rather that less is known about how best to exploit them than
    currently remains unknown ...  that they probably have uses no one
    has thought of yet.

Given that a large number of people have been using lightweight processes
in a large number of environments for at least a decade, there are probably
far fewer uses than you think that haven't been thought of already.  Even
a cursory glance at the literature will show that people have been thinking
very hard about such things for quite a while, including what should be
the best primitives.
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