On 8/8/2013 2:31 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I think these changes are sane. Once upon a time, the CRTL did not
support /dev/null as an alias for the native _NLA0:.
I would have to build up a VMS 5.5-2 system on a SimH emulator to be
sure of the behavior back at the beginning of the current CRTL image.
There have been some features of the CRTL that have apparently been
there since then, but only got documented recently.
The /dev/null being used for NLA0: is one of them.
Another is that /tmp is mapped to SYS$SCRATCH: if the logical name TMP:
does not exist.
Regards,
-John
