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

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Oct 27 22:02:12 EDT 2009


Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>> 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.
> 
> But there seem to be Web servers for VMS,
> so there must be some mechanism equivalent to fork().

VMS has obviously ways to start processes.

And modern web servers uses threads and VMS supports Posix
threads.

Arne



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