>on z/OS the sticky bit on an executable file affects how a spawn() and >_BPX_SHAREAS works.
It mainly affects where the loader starts looking for the program to be loaded, namely LPA. Its a performance thing in the first place. Then, for some reason unknown to me, IBM had to decide that such modules must not be loaded as local process. I guess it's an system integrity issue. Therefore it affects spawn(). >Its kind of a hack (mess). In what sense do you think it is a hack? I agree its a mess, in that is inhibits a locally spawned shell. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
