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Article #9947Re: Lattice's fork function
From: Chuck McManis
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1988 04:01
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 1988 04:01
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In article <2386@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
> "time time" works fine as does "time microemacs" (from the 1.2 extras),
> however, "time dir" prints the contents of the directory and then gurus,
> "time cd" crashes before printing, and "time echo hello" won't even fork
> the process.
> | Mike Davis
The Lattice fork() function only works on C executables and *not* BCPL
ones. The ARP replacement commands may fail (haven't tried them) because
they don't use the C startup code but I am not sure. The standard AmigaDOS
commands will definitely fail.
--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!claris!ames!oliveb!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Lattice's fork function Keywords: fork, task, help! Message-ID: <71225@sun.uucp> Date: 3 Oct 88 04:01:18 GMT References: <2386@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16