[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

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Le Thu, 31 May 2012 11:45:06 +0000,
ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> écrivait :
> On 05/30/12 18:18, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>> JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>>> Neil Rieck wrote:
>>
>>>> be the explanation for why many C programers today are unable to wrap
>>>> their brains around record processing (most always want to open a file
>>>> with "fopen()" then produce stream i/o)
>>
>>> or just read the whole file in memory instead of only reading the
>>> records they need.
>>
>> I have seen that done in just about every language.
>>
>> As memory gets bigger, more and more will do it, as they can
>> get away with it longer.
>>
>> -- glen
>
> There's probably enough memory in many machines to do that now, but a more
> portable way might be to write a vms file system layer as a shared library
> on top of a unix or other file system.

	You cannot as some VMS functionnalities should be written in
	kernelland (with an entry point in userland like regular libc).

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