[Info-vax] Porting logical name applications to Unix

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00A923BB.4839ED4B at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, winston at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) writes:
> 
> They *can*, but in fact (on VMS, even) whether your C program will immediately
> start acting on the updated translation depends on the setting of a C 
> runtime logical name.  (We got better performance from Apache when we had it
> cache the translation rather than retranslating hundreds of thousands of
> times).

   What runtime logical name?  Unless the C RTL is going out of its way
   to complicate things logical name translation for file opens are
   done by RMS.