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

[Eberhard Heuser]

Joerg,

try the  HP ITRC OpenVMS forum.

If you search the keyword "fork" for example, the first results gives an 
example.

Eberhard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joerg Schilling" <js at cs.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
To: <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS


> In article <op.u24yw8madc3j58 at notemv-tap.mv.privat>,
> Martin Vorlaender <mv at pdv-systeme.de> wrote:
>
>>> With a real vfork() you may use vfork() in all these cases as long as
>>> you do not use stdio in the child and as long as you call _exit()
>>> instead of exit() in the child in case if a problem. On VMS, you would
>>> need to dup2() descriptors 0/1/2 to other numbers before redirecting
>>> 0/1/2 for the new process _and_ you would need to restore 0/1/2 in the
>>> parent. The latter makes it hard to suport I/O redirection in typical
>>> software.
>>
>>That's what the HP C RTL has decc$set_child_standard_streams() for, see
>>http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/5763/5763pro_029.html#decc_set_child_routine
>
> Thank you, this helps for most left over cases. Is there a documented
> method to find documentation for unknown interfaces with specific features
> whithout asking people?
>
> On UNIX I can use "man -k keyword" or check the "SEE ALSO" parts of the
> documentation from similar interfaces.
>
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