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Re: different CVS_SERVER for different hosts


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: different CVS_SERVER for different hosts
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:50:47 -0500
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Paul Edwards wrote:

|"Derek Robert Price" <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.2823.1067528885.21628.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
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|>Paul Edwards wrote:
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|>|>If you have any other functions that are not covered, please let us
know.
|>|
|>|
|>|E.g. fork() is provided?  And if it is, it will work on any
|>|C89 compiler?  Borland C++ 3.1 for DOS is 100%
|>|ISO-conforming.  So is SAS/C for MVS (OS/390).
|>
|>These compilers don't provide access to system functions?
|
|
|There is no such system function on DOS or MVS.
|
|Ergo, any application relying on fork() being available is a
|long way from being portable.


You could have fooled me.  CVS relies on fork() (or vfork()) and it sure
seems to run on a lot of platforms.  That's been true for at least 8 years.

Derek

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