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Date:	Sun, 23 May 1999 21:07:53 PDT
From:	Dallas Legan <dallasii@kincyb.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Points about the meeting the 15th

Regarding the Programming SIG meeting on 15 May 1999 Sat.:

1) I'd asked some about the 'spawn' call in the EMX library after
the meeting.
I finally dug up my copy of "Advanced Programming In the Unix Environment"
( (C) 1992) by Mega-tombmeister W. Richard Stevens.
On page 193, it states:
"Some operating systems combine the operations from step 2 (a fork
followed by an exec) into a single operation called a spawn."
This is all that he says about spawn, and I wouldn't have found it
except that I'd penciled it in to the index when reading the book some
years back.
My copy of "The Standard C Library", ( (C) 1992) by P.J. Plauger,
doesn't mention it - is this edition out of date?
Anyway, anyone else have anything to say about the history of 'spawn',
personal experiences?

2) The full speil on the book I was ranting about at the meeting is:
'Programming with GNU Software' by Mike Loukides and Andy Oram,
ISBN 1-56592-112-7, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., $39.95.
It deals with the hands on aspects of using the GNU software.

3) There some mention about Sun computers and device drivers that
seemed to end with a comment that "....but that would mean they would
have to recompile the kernal".
Maybe I missed the point of the line of comments, maybe I'm
making a big deal out of the obvious, but I thought recompiling
the kernal to handle new hardware was a fairly common thing
with UNIX systems.

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II
(562) 862 - 4854 ext. '*'

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