Grievous. Irresponsible. Blunder. Don't hold back Paul. Don Imbriale
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Curiousity question: the processing of DD DUMMY. On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:50:54 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:12:24 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote: > >>IIRC, SYS1.NULLFILE was recognized by the system as a special case of >>DUMMY. But it filled in the DSNAME field of the JFCB. > >You are thinking of DSN=NULLFILE. Now we also have PATH=/dev/null. > Which was a grievous and irresponsible and unnecessary design blunder. Who benefits from this special treatment of PATH=/dev/null? It only adds confusion by making the behavior of PATH=/dev/null different from the behavior of PATH=/./dev/null and from the behavior of PATH=[any symbolic link to /dev/null]. *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
