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

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> The end results should be the same.  Get the fork out of there and rewrite
> the code to work with some other scheme supported in the OS.


Or just get the f_ck out of there because you've realised how much of an
effort re-architecting the application without fork would be.

Yes, you can write native applications on VMS without fork. you have
ASTs, you have threads, shared memory, locks etc.

The problem is that when an OS ages and native software is no longer
written from scratch for it, you need to port software from other
operating systems, and this is where the lack fo fork starts to hurt
because the porting effort is just too difficult.