| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
I'm writing an AM which needs to startup a detached server process.
This will be supported on both Ultrix and VMS.
I was looking at the mcc_ultrix conference about starting
processes. Note 11.4 lists mcc_lib_detach for starting
a detached process, but note 11.1 says to see Pete Burgess
for an interface if an MM needs to fork a process.
Can I use mcc_lib_detach, or do I need to contact Pete for
another interface.
thanks,
Bonnie
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| 2029.1 | TOOK::SWIST | Jim Swist LKG2-2/T2 DTN 226-7102 | Mon Jan 06 1992 15:58 | 2 | |
That info is old. Use mcc_lib_detach or cma_fork.
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| 2029.2 | mcc_lib_detach supported on VMS? | MUNDRA::MUNDRA | Tue Jan 21 1992 14:57 | 6 | |
There was a time when mcc_lib_detach was not supported on VMS, but there were plans to do so. Is mcc_lib_detach now supported for VMS? Thanks, Satinder | |||||
| 2029.3 | TOOK::SWIST | Jim Swist LKG2-2/T2 DTN 226-7102 | Tue Jan 21 1992 16:34 | 19 | |
It's not "really" supported on either platform (i.e., it's not in
the SRM and is not planned to be).
mcc_lib_detach is an unsupported routine that had to be invented
to hide the interactions between CMA and fork on Ultrix.
Now that CMA has added a wrapper to fork that does the same stuff,
we don't really need mcc_lib_detach anymore.
It was never needed on VMS since subprocess startup doesn't involve
either MCC or CMA.
Yes you could argue that mcc_lib_detach would provide a nice portable
way of starting another process on either platform and hence we should
support it, but there are plenty of other system services that could
use the same kind of jacket and we have enough trouble around here
doing Enterprise Management without getting into supplying generic
portable OS interfaces.
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