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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7krs6vF3af5v3U10 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 
> You miss the point. They are talking about VMS SPAWN, which is unlike 
> vfork()+exec(). It is nearer to creating a new (empty) process and 
> loading a program into it.

   Doesn't that end up with the same thing?  I would expect vfork() to
   start a new process and exec() to load a new program into it.

   In fact, the C RTL does have a pair of routines (or macros in the
   approriate header file) called vfork() and exec() that end up spawning 
   a new process running a new program.  Just don't expect the 
   implementation to look like those in UNIX.