On 2017-06-30, at 15:23, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > I agree on both points. I am totally mystified by the presence of O prefix > on the PATHOPTS values. It makes it so much hard for me to read; specially > OWRONLY. Why not just W, R and WR? Sheesh. > Consistency with UNIX/C. See, e.g. the description of open() in: XL C/C++ Runtime Library Reference
Really, it ought to be O_WRONLY, but the JCL folks couldn't see their way to that degree of consistency. C macros endure similar constraints to Assembler EQUated symbols -- they must be globally unique, thus they are longer than you'd otherwise think necessary. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
