Hi, Modern Fortran has a feature called ISO_C_BINDING. It essentially allows to declare a binding of external function to be used from Fortran program. You only need to provide a corresponding interface. ISO_C_BINDING module contains C-like extensions in type system, but you don't need them, as your function has no arguments :)
Example: program fork_test interface function fork() bind(C) use iso_c_binding integer(c_int) :: fork end function fork end interface print *, 'My PID = ', fork() end program fork_test $ make gfortran fork.f90 -o fork $ ./fork My PID = 4033 My PID = 0 For further info, please refer to language standard http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranStandards#Fortran_2003 If you have any questions - consider asking the gfortran community, they are very friendly. Best, - D. 2012/8/30 sudhirs@ <sudhirche...@gmail.com>: > Dear users, > How to use fork(), vfork() type functions in Fortran programming ?? > > Thanking you in advance > > -- > Sudhir Kumar Sahoo > Ph.D Scholar > Dept. Of Chemistry > IIT Kanpur-208016 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
