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Re: fork vs. spawn

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: fork vs. spawn
From: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
Date: 13 Aug 1996 17:04:25 -0400
Dave Mason <dmason@jupiter.scs.ryerson.ca> writes:

> Spawn certainly should be more portable than fork.  I know VMS only
> (really) has spawn, and I think one or more of the Microsoft
> ``Operating Systems'' only has spawn too.

Of course, the CORRECT way to have scsh run on those
platforms is to port the moral equivalent of Eunice...  ;>

        Sean.

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