[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Rich Alderson]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

> 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.

The order of operations in RSX-11M (OK, -20F) is:

PAR%MCR INI
INI>DB0:
^\
PAR%MCR MOU
MOU>DB0:
MOU -- MOUNT COMPLETE
MOU>
^\
PAR%MCR UFD
UFD>DB0:[5,5]
^\
...

That last is peculiar to a KL-10 front end, but it's a good example of
something to do after mounting the disk.

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