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Why execl and fork system call wasn't supported in posix api
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:41:34 -0500 (CDT)
- From: chris at chriscaudle.org (Chris Caudle)
- Subject: Why execl and fork system call wasn't supported in posix api
On Wed, August 20, 2008 10:05 pm, PowerMan wrote:
> Why execl and fork system call wasn't supported
> in posix api[?]
Functions which spawn a new process have limited use in an environment
which only supports one process.
RTEMS is a single process, multiple thread model, so only POSIX functions
from the PSE-51 and PSE-52 profiles are supported.
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Chris Caudle