[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

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In article <q29qu2$g7r$1 at dont-email.me>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> writes:
>On 1/22/2019 2:44 PM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>> My job today is mainly system administration. But I have done software
>> development in the past, and still enjoy doing some programming when the
>> opportunity arises. What I have been asked to do today is however a bit
>> more challenging for me than usual.
>> 
>> It'll basically consist of porting C code written for a linux platform
>> to OpenVMS. And it won't be the trivial 'copy the code and recompile'
>> job :
>> 
>> 1) it contains several system calls which I'll need to find an adequate
>> equivalent for. I think I can manage that one, even if I know nothing
>> about Linux.
>
>You need to use a search engine to find "The Open Group" and the syscall 
>name and look up the description of the call, and possibly the Linux 
>System Base.

OPEN is a codeword for UNIX. :P

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