[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Wendell]

On May 26, 6:43 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <5442791a-1a87-473c-ba87-951f872ce... at d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Wendell <wendel... at yahoo.com> writes:
> > it seems that Darwin/OS X has gone over to something more like VMS.
>
>   OS X just mounts  extra disks by dynamically managing UNIX style
>   mount points in /Volumes.

Ack...I was misled by the unusual naming. I should have read the docs
closer.

>    What I don't see is a true hierarchy where volume 2 is mounted
>    on volume 1 and volume 3 is mounted on volume 2.

Yeah, I couldn't imagine anyone doing that except out of
maliciousness.

>    I don't see anything "cleaner" either way...

What I think is interesting here is the difference between VMS and
Unix in approach to distributed resources. Actually, even more
interesting is to compare with Plan 9. Both are promoted for ease of
managing clusters, but Plan 9 hides the distinctions of devices and
location.