At 05:17 PM 3/9/00 -0500, Charles Bailey wrote:
>: >flock() isn't a native part of VMS, though some emulations exist. RMS
>: >locking (the intrinsic stuff) is mandatory (unless you bypass it with
>: >raw I/O calls) and record-oriented.
>: : That's a pretty low-level bypass, though. IIRC you have to request
>actual : disk blocks, which requires PHY_IO or LOG_IO privs.
>
>You should be able to request virtual blocks withot prove, but you're on
>your own wrt making sense of the file structure.
I thought RMS got in your way if you tried that, for some reason. Guess not.
>: >The msg* and shm* wrappers are in newer DECCRTLs, but we don't go after
>'em.
>: >Better still would be an interface to native global sections.
>: : I've got no msg or shm info in the headers I've got. I've been meaning
>to : take a look at implementing them on top of mailboxes and global
>sections, : but time crunches keep getting in the way.
>
>I dunno when precisely they appear; I just recall seeing the functions in
>the list of new things a while ago.
They must be someplace I'm not looking then. (This would *not* be the first
time... :)
I'll tell subconfigure about them when it gets the big modular facelift.
Dan
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