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From: larrys@watson.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Porting from Unix to OS/2
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Date: 21 Jun 91 15:41:41 GMT
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In <3126@public.BTR.COM>, car@public.BTR.COM (Carlos Rimola-Sarti  car@btr.com) writes:
>
>One of the first things that I had to decide was what to do about
>the Unix fork() call.  The application makes use of fork to spawn off
>background processes.  The "right" thing to do is probably to redesign
>the app to use threads instead of fork().  However, the app will be
>thrown away and I only needed to verify that the other pieces are
>working.  Because of this, I thought that moving the application to
>OS/2 would be made a lot easier if I could emulate fork.

You're creating more trouble than you would be saving by not redesigning
the application.  I thought I read (some time ago) that one of the Unix
companies (MKS?) wrote a fork() for OS/2, but I can't remember for sure.

Cheers,
Larry Salomon, Jr. (aka 'Q')            LARRYS@YKTVMV.BITNET
OS/2 Applications and Tools             larrys@ibmman.watson.ibm.com
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center         larrys@eng.clemson.edu
Yorktown Heights, NY

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