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

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Wed Oct 28 17:53:45 EDT 2009


Joerg Schilling wrote:
> In article <0095b6eb$0$27948$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
> JF Mezei  <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>
>>> But there seem to be Web servers for VMS,
>>> so there must be some mechanism equivalent to fork().
>> To fork(), ASTs or threaded programming all use very different
>> application architectures, so it isn't easy to switch from one to the other.
> 
> 
> What do you understand by AST? I know AST as "Advanced Software Technology" 
> Library from Davod Korn.
> 

AST:==Asynchronous System Trap

It's an interrupt usually used to announce I/O completion.

You might google for it using "site:hp.com"  Don't even think about 
trying to use HP's search engine; it couldn't find its ass with both hands!



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