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Date:      Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:17:22 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Javier Matos <javierlu@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: a simple question...
Message-ID:  <2C8F3C40-6F4C-4D0B-A308-EF4A62214D6B@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601c5e16b$5751b510$0301a8c0@mindcrash>
References:  <000601c5e16b$5751b510$0301a8c0@mindcrash>

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On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Javier Matos wrote:
> Hello, I=B4m a student of computer science and this year I must to do =20=

> an application using system calls.
> We are using linux system calls like "pid_t fork(void)" and other =20
> services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it=B4s possible to =20=

> use that system calls in FreeBSD because I prefer to improve my use =20=

> of freebsd. I will write my application in C and I have freebsd 5.4 =20=

> with linux compability activated.

FreeBSD has a fork() system call of it's own, yes, along with all of =20
the other system and library calls from POSIX and ANSI-C standards.  =20
If you write portable C, you can recompile your program under FreeBSD =20=

without using Linux emulation.

--=20
-Chuck




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