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October 1997, Week 3

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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Oct 1997 05:46:50 +0100
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At 17:34 12.10.1997 -0700, Mark after Michael wrote:
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>> Does HP Support the calling of Image routines from POSIX?
>
>I haven't had a need to try, but it appears to be possible

But you should make sure that you do not try to fork() another child
process after opening IMAGE databases. These special file opens do
not dup() very well... (I'd expect fork() to return some kind of error
instead of getting a system_abort, but who knows...)

;-) Lars (not speaking for HP, just for myself)

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