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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> We have managed to get along without fork() for about thirty
>>> years.

> 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().

AFAIK there are no programming task that requires fork.

But porting code using fork to a system with no fork is
often a lot of work.

Server apps written in C for *nix frequently use fork and
this type of app is often relevant for VMS.

Arne