[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

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In article <k0nrjp$m7n$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, hb <end.of at inter.net> writes:
>On 08/17/12 17:06, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> I suspect the POSIX shell would have been packaged a layered product,
>> but I don't recall that particular CLI in any detail. AFAIK, it and
>> DEC/shell were not part of the OpenVMS operating system, and thus not
>> included in the source listings.
>I assume you refer to VMS integrated POSIX (VIP) and it's POSIX 
>compliant shell (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992). VIP was a system integrated 
>product provided in a separate package. There was VMS operating system 
>code to support the API (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988), especially for fork(). 
>There was no VMS code for the shell (as we all know, the shell just uses 
>the POSIX API). The VIP support code was removed from the VMS sources 
>during the port to I64. The VIP POSIX shell was implemented as a CLI 
>(yes, in that sense, there was code in VMS for the POSIX shell as well :-)

Where was fork() in the VMS code?
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