On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:34:52 -0500, John McKown wrote: >z/LINUX uses SVC to invoke the kernel. > >Which I find most interesting as it means that, theoretically, one could >write a z/LINUX ABI interface which uses Subsystem SVC screening to run >z/Linux applications on z/OS UNIX. > fork()? Pipes? Sockets? Environment variables? File access? EBCDIC<-->ASCII autoconversion? SYSCALLS back to Classic facilities and Classic Data Management?
What are the advantages of PC over SVC? Why did Linux for z eschew PC and stay with SVC? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
