[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <irm25s$sef$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2011-05-26 06.45, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article<irkkki$dc8$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist<bqt at softjar.se>  writes:
>>
>>> To create a file system on a disk, you need to
>>> mount the disk first (but telling VMS that there is no file system to
>>> try to understand).
>>
>>     You initialize before you mount.  I've never tried to initialize a
>>     volume that was mounted foreign, and I don't think it works.
> 
> My memory might have a bit error then, but for RSX, the procedure is:
> you mount the disk foreign, and no share. Then you initialize it, then 
> dismount, and remount as a structured device.

   My RSX bits have long since decayed.  I tried the sequence on VMS 7.3
   (SIMH) before I posted, but it's been decades since I initialized
   anything on RSX.