docs(vms-e9a): LIB$SPAWN/SYS$CREPRC subprocess-pipeline design - #672
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…river forcing function) Grounded design for the subprocess-pipeline facility the GCC driver (cpp->cc1->as->ld) will force, surfaced by the GCC-oracle lane (vms-da0). Finding: OVMX has three divergent process-creation paths; lib$spawn does a real fork/exec of DCL.EXE but never registers with the executive (prcnam/efn/ astadr discarded, lib_misc.c:275) -> spawned procs invisible to $GETJPI/SHOW SYSTEM/$DELPRC, no /NOWAIT completion AST. Design unifies onto SYS$CREPRC + adds exit EF/AST notification; GCC driver calls LIB$SPAWN, not musl vfork. This lib$spawn->raw-fork bypass is also instance #1 in the executive-boundary program (vms-040). rd item: vms-e9a. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Grounded design (docs-only) for the subprocess-pipeline facility the GCC driver (cpp→cc1→as→ld) will force — surfaced by the GCC-as-VMS-oracle lane (vms-da0), filed as vms-e9a.
Finding: OVMX has three divergent process-creation paths.
lib$spawndoes a real fork/exec of DCL.EXE but never registers the child with the executive (prcnam/efn/astadrdiscarded,lib_misc.c:275) → spawned processes are invisible to$GETJPI/SHOW SYSTEM/$DELPRC, no/NOWAITcompletion AST. Design: unify ontoSYS$CREPRC, add exit EF/AST notification (shared kernel-core, 3-way gated), give the GCC driver a VMS-host process hook callingLIB$SPAWN/$CREPRC— not muslvfork. Mostly reuse of executive primitives already landed from the MMK exec-drive work.This
lib$spawn→raw-forkbypass is also instance #1 in the executive-boundary enforcement program (vms-040). F2-era; implements when the GCC driver forces it. Design available for the conductor's convergence-gate review.🤖 Generated with Claude Code