[comp.os.vms] child processes in VMS

robert@acad.UUCP (Robert Wenig ext 609) (09/30/87)

I need to start up child processes from C in VMS. Using the facilities
of vfork and exec does the job, however the VMS C run time library does
not give back a status of process not found on the exec call. The parent
is expected to do a wait -- which is not what I want to do.


Does anybody out there have a C callable routine which will start
a child process and return reasonable and timely error messages ?


Robert Wenig
Autodesk