[Freeswitch-users] Fork( ) and Exec ( ) functions

Sergey Okhapkin sos at sokhapkin.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 18 23:48:07 MSK 2015


Usually fork-less OSes provide spawn() family of syscalls to execute a new 
process.

On Sunday 18 January 2015 20:32:02 Abdul Hakeem wrote:
> Hello again,
> The reason I ask is because I am trying to port FS to OSv.
> Unfortunately,  Fork ( )  is unsupported in OSv.
> Regards,
> Abdul Hakeem
> 
> From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Moises
> Silva Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 5:11 PM
> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Fork( ) and Exec ( ) functions
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Abdul Hakeem <alhakeem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I understand FS makes system calls for sending mails, voicemail and fax.
>  Can anyone guide me on how to mitigate the load of fork ( ) and exec( ) on
> system calls & also,  a list of functions which require FS to make system
> calls ?
> 
> Not making much sense here. Everything in FS relies heavily on system calls
> as it's a multi-threaded-I/O-driven system for the most part. I think
> you're asking the wrong question.



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