[Info-vax] VMS Forever?

[John Reagan]

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message 
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> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> I thought there was a BASH Shell for VMS?  Isn't it part of GNV?
>
> The big question (from technical perspective) is whether it is in
> P0 or P1.
>
> Arne

The BASH shell in GNV is just a regular program.  Nothing special.  It 
doesn't use SYS$CLI.  It uses various combinations of vfork/exec/system to 
do all the work.  Nothing runs in the same address space with BASH. 
Everything is a subprocess.

John