Gil, I am with you and zMan what's so difficult about an orderly shutdown on OMVS and z/os address spaces..z/Pdt has vtamappl, everything shutdown fine...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:36 -0400, zMan wrote: >> >>> Some years ago, I suggested in MVS-OE that MVS shutdown should >>> send SIGTERM to all dubbed processes so that processes coded to >>> UNIX conventions could perform orderly shutdown. The suggestion >>> was not well received. >> >> Can you elaborate? Why would orderly shutdown not be A Good Thing? >> > "They" didn't say. Too UNIXy for them. But I'll conjecture: Many address > spaces get dubbed nowadays by incidental use of UNIX services such as > TCP/IP. The default action for SIGTERM if a process doesn't handle it > is that the process is terminated. This would be unwelcomed by a process > that was waiting rather for a legacy MODIFY command to shut itself down. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
