[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Vitaly Pustovetov]

суббота, 12 ноября 2022 г. в 05:41:42 UTC+1, jake.... at gmail.com:

> It would *definitely* make sense for VMS to provide a posix_spawn() API since it would be more efficient than the current method. Getting back to shells, I discovered bash had so many global variables
> that I needed to put them somewhere if I was going to try my plan to get the VMS port working more reliably by passing subshell data instead of bash (and every other UNIX shell)'s behavior
> of using fork() and the subshell inheriting stuff. 

I'm not sure about the efficiency benefit of the posix_spawn() API, but now I'm adding it to the CRTL. At a minimum, posix_spawn avoids using the setjump/longjump.