[Info-vax] Looking into C-include files on VMS

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Tue Oct 27 21:11:42 EDT 2009


JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> We have managed to get along without fork() for about thirty
>> years.
> 
> 
> Speak for yourself... some prefer to fork with another cute process with
> nice performance curves compared to playing with yourself in the
> confines of your own process.
> 
> :-)

JF you are welcome to play with yourself anywhere you feel comfortable 
doing so!  If the police observe you, so much the better!

I've programmed for for VMS VAX and Alpha for about thirty-five years 
without missing fork() in the slightest.  YMMV

Of course I started my career ca. 1966 with SDS 900 series machines 
which ran a long forgotten O/S and used a long forgotten command 
language. Unix was still imprisoned at Bell Laboratories and Berkeley. 
 From that I moved to IBM mainframe.  None of these systems offered or 
needed fork() or vfork().



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