> They're retiring the services that take null-terminated strings in > > >
favor of ones that take descriptors. Just got announced today.
Would you please tell us where this was announced?
Thank you, Ed
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Posted to comp.os.vms under the subject "Hackers can't break into VMS"
(a long rant on the iniquity of null-terminated strings)
'Regarding the recent discussion of the Galaxy locking interface: the masses
have spoken. We will add a traditional interface to these services (using
descriptors) in a future release of OpenVMS.
We will officially retire the ASCIZ interfaces, but keep them functional for
backwards compatibility.
Joshua Cope
OpenVMS Engineering'
