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´m a student of computer science and this year I must to do > an application using system calls. > We are using linux system calls like "pid_t fork(void)" and other > services of the standard POSIX. I want to know if it´s possible to > use that system calls in FreeBSD because I prefer to improve my use > of freebsd. I will write my application in C and I have freebsd 5.4 > with linux compability activated. FreeBSD has a fork() system call of it's own, yes, along with all of the other system and library calls from POSIX and ANSI-C standards. If you write portable C, you can recompile your program under FreeBSD without using Linux emulation. -- -Chuck
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