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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

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().
> 

SPAWN is *vaguely* equivalent to fork.  SPAWN will create a new process 
and specifies the program that will initially run in that process.