[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Koehler]

In article <73ucnhF102ekiU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> So, tell me, what is wrong with forking a new process for each job?  What
> does SPAWN do?

   VMS does not fork.  Lots of folks porting UNIX software would like
   a fork(), but it's not there.

   Creating a new, empty process, is not the same as forking an existing
   process.