[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00AC6499.BC6B46DE at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 
> Directory files are handled in the XQP, not by RMS.  Granted, there are
> RMS services to manipulate directories but that'd be like saying that C's
> mkdir() is a part of the file system

   I once heard from a VMS engineer that directories are handled by RMS.
   But all the pieces are available via the $QIO interface, except for
   the recursion to work down a list of directories, looking up each FID
   and using it as the next DID.

   I suspect that is the piece RMS does for us when we open a file by
   the full path.  I can't imagine VMS engineers writing that more
   than once.