[Info-vax] Looking for other IDEAS for Small/Medium OVMS appliance server????

[Paul Sture]

In article <plrX$YW7+ZE4 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <00AAA645.76C1CBCC at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG 
> writes:
> > 
> > Well, I've long contended that the bit is improperly named.  It should
> > be called PCB$V_IMMORTAL.  When this bit is set, it is telling OpenVMS
> > that this process must exist.  If an exception should occur and it is
> > not fielded by the software, it is going to cause image rundown.  When
> > the rundown get to the final stages in SYS$EXIT, it sees that this is
> > an IMMORTAL process.  It sets process scheduling priority to 0 and then
> > does what it can to insure that the process is retained; it loops on:
> > 20$: BRB 20$.
> 
>    Essentially causing multiple null prcesses.  I recall killing NETACP
>    before that bit was invented would cause fat Al to show up, I guess
>    this is better than nothing.  But there is absolutely no reason an
>    application should use it.  Whatever problem they were trying to fix,
>    there must be a better design.

It also appeared in a version of TCP/IP Services at one point. I recall 
being most annoyed that we needed a reboot to fix an otherwise simple 
problem.

-- 
Paul Sture