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

[Michael Jerris]

You can also look at how we have addressed this issue for windows.  The places I know of that use these functions.  switch_system (used for executing external commands and sending emails), and daemonizing FreeSWITCH.


> On Jan 18, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Sergey Okhapkin <sos at sokhapkin.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.