Threads and REmote System Calls: A Case Study of their Utility and Performance on UNIX's RCP

A set of user programs, which do remote processing, is supplied with UNIX 4.3 BSD. Among these is the remote copy command (rep). Although this command has call semantics similar to cp, the local file copy command, its performance is much worse. The stated goal of this master's thesis is to explore distributed and remote processing in general (from an OS point of view), to examine rcp in particular, to discover its performance weaknesses, and to implement a new version that is more efficient.