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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2019 1:50 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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

The Open Group does several things.

Some like TOGAF certfications has nothing to do with Unix.

The relevant part here is called "Single UNIX Specification"
and it certainly relates to Unix.

:-)

Arne