Why execl and fork system call wasn't supported in posix api

Chris Caudle chris at chriscaudle.org
Thu Aug 21 15:41:34 UTC 2008


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.

-- 
Chris Caudle








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