Re: fork() in ILE C

[Scott Klement <c400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AFIAK, there's no equivalent to fork() in ILE.  The closest match is 
spawn().

OS/400 jobs are not the same as Unix processes.  I don't think there's 
any way under OS/400 to start a new job and have it resume in the middle 
of a program where the calling job left off?  (That's what fork() does)

There's one in PASE, which does have Unix processes, since it is a Unix 
environment -- but that won't help you in ILE C.

See if you can accomplish your purpose via spawn() instead of fork().



Schmidt, Mihael wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I didn't find any fork() function for ILE C. I guess there is none.
>
> Can I use fork400() ? But I have seen that the header file as400_protos.h resides in /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/OS400/PASE/include. Does that matter? Will a PASE environment be startet when calling the fork400() from an ILE C program?
>
> If that would work I would use the following line to mimic fork()
>
> #define fork() fork400("CS", 0); 
>
> Would that work?
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Mihael Schmidt
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