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

[Dave Froble]

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
>

Yeah, and ain't that sad??

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