Jeff Smith said > Every instance of the ISV "get yourself authorized SVC" that > I have seen is horribly broken.
TRUE! And there's no need to limit that to the ones you've seen Jeff. They -ALL- violate system integrity rules. There's no way to hedge on this issue. They're just plain wrong. > The only such SVC that actually > works correctly is the IBM MODESET SVC, which requires the > caller to be APF authorized (or already running in system state). > The general rule is that a program that needs to do something > authorized should put that logic on the other side of the > SVC/PC fence and do it in a controlled environment. I have not > yet seen an ISV "get yourself authorized" SVC that couldn't > be replaced with a correct authorized service that does it > the right way. Just sloppy or incompetent developers IMHO. Yes again. What amazes me about this is that the developers of these abominations often spend more effort doing it wrong than it takes to do it right. Go figure. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
