Too bad, the manual on RHEL5 does not mention anything about it being
deprecated. The software vendor simply will only support RHEL4! If there's
any trick (compat library, LD_Preloading something ... ) to get this going,
please let me know
Appreciating the help
Regards

On 9/4/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm running a binary RHEL4 compatible, on RHEL5 for reasons I would
> rather
> > not get into. Unfortunately, part of the application is not running
> > correctly. I straced it, and AFAICT, some tool is using vfork to launch
> > another process, and it fails with error ENOSYS (vfork not
> implemented)!!
> > Now that same application is running fine on other RHEL4 machines. Can
> > anyone please let me know what's happening here? Am I missing some
> compat
> > library ? Has this syscall been deprecated ?
> > Thanks for the Help, here's the strace part:
> >
> > 32593 pipe([4, 5])                      = 0
> > 32593 dup(0)                            = 6
> > 32593 dup2(4, 0)                        = 0
> > 32593 close(4)                          = 0
> > 32593 vfork()                           = -1 ENOSYS (Function not
> > implemented)
> > 32593 dup2(6, 0)                        = 0
> > 32593 close(6)                          = 0
> > 32593 close(5)                          = 0
> > 32593 write(1, "*WARNING* Cannot start avlck; Fu"..., 55) = 55
> > 32593 write(1, "*WARNING* Cannot create file \"de"..., 65) = 65
> > 32593 write(1, "\n\n*****  aveng terminated abnorm"..., 45) = 45
>
> man vfork
>
> Talk to the supplier.
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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