[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00b1383d$0$6718$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    So how do you both enforce the existing I/O rules and break them?  To
>>    date VMS Engineering has not taken on that dilema.
> 
> Instead of creating a new process (which for VMS means a separate entity
> with thick walls all around), couldn't they "fake" a new process by
> creating a thread disguised as a process ?

   I've been working on that very idea in one of my little pet projects.
   (Write a fork() emulation in POSIX threads.)  Not trivial, there are
   lots of little details and they will all come and get you.