#: 17699 S1/General Interest
    11-Mar-93  09:32:57
Sb: #17689-#POSIX compatible fork()
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: Frits Wiarda 71553,3104 (X)

Frits -

I believe _someone_ wrote a unix fork (Bob Larson?) function, but it's not
native to the delivered OS9 libraries. While I work in both domains (OS9 &
Unix), I always felt that the OS9 method made more sense. Example - you want to
fork a child process, that is not the same as yourself (i.e. 'dir' want to fork
'more'):

  OS9:
       os9fork more
       done


  Unix:

      fork self
      am I self?
        yes - do nothing
        nope - I'm child - exec more
     done

If you don't have access to the larson library additions (possibly on the OS9
server at cabrales), why not just conditionally compile the code for OS9/Unix?

Pete

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