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

[Paul Raulerson]

On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, MetaEd wrote:

> On Nov 9, 8:04 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> put some wrapper so that the thread behaves as a process from the
>> application's point of view, while remaining within the main VMS  
>> process
>> which makes access to IO structures much easier.
>
> Threads share one data space, whereas what you want with fork() is a
> duplicate data space.

Eh yeah, but with qualifications. The data space is not copied until  
some changes are made. If the forked program does not make changes,
no new data space. ;)

-Paul


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