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From: robert@acad.UUCP (Robert Wenig ext 609)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: child processes in VMS
Message-ID: <178@acad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 01:13:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: acad.178
Posted: Wed Sep 30 01:13:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 20:36:05 EDT
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Keywords: exec fork


I need to start up child processes from C in VMS. Using the facilities
of vfork and exec does the job, however the VMS C run time library does
not give back a status of process not found on the exec call. The parent
is expected to do a wait -- which is not what I want to do.


Does anybody out there have a C callable routine which will start
a child process and return reasonable and timely error messages ?


Robert Wenig
Autodesk