en-us http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary A conversion dictionary for developers porting Unix HPC applications to Windows. http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/signals.php Porting signals between Unix and Windows is a complex topic; to help developers with the process, we've added a new tutorial on signals to the Dictionary. 15 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/signal-entry.php POSIX operating systems handle signals quite differently than Windows. To help developers port between the two, we've added several entries to the Dictionary discussing functions related to signal handling. 14 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/tips.php We've added a couple more links on the Tips page, including a good example on how to write cross-platform, multithreaded code and resources from Microsoft on creating multithreaded software. 13 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/gethostid-entry.php An entry for gethostid() has been added to the Dictionary. 12 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/tips.php In response to user questions, the tips page now has some information about file permissions. If you have any questions the Dictionary doesn't cover, let us know! 11 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/getppid-entry.php getppid returns the parent of the process. 10 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/getpgrp-entry.php getpgrp changes the process group. 9 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/getenv-entry.php getenv returns the value of a given environment variable. 8 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/chgrp-entry.php The chgrp function changes the group. http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/chgrp-entry.php 7 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/chmod-entry.php chmod changes the permissions on a given file. 5 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/tips.php The Porting Tips section has been updated with new links to Microsoft HPC resources. 5 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/truncate-entry.php The truncate() and ftruncate() functions set a file to the specified length. 4 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/ttyname-entry.php The ttyname() function returns the name of the terminal (aka tty) associated with the running process for the file descriptor provided to the function provided the file descriptor is associated with a terminal. 3 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/waitpid-entry.php The purpose of the waitpid() function is to have the calling process pause while waiting to detect when a particular process or processes have exited and to reap any zombies. 2 http://www.interopcommunity.com/dictionary/dictionary/pause-entry.php The pause() function forces a process to wait until a Unix signal has been sent to the process. 1