[Info-vax] Are queue manager updates written to disk immediately ?

[Paul Sture]

In article <kk9u79$1ms$1 at dont-email.me>,
 David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > On 2013-04-12 16:13:09 +0000, Paul Sture said:
> > 
> >> $sndjbc was so programmer userland unfriendly that a colleague wrote 
> >> some wrappers for it.
> > 
> > No shortage of those APIs around, either.  Salient examples: 
> > smg$create_menu... decc$to_vms()...
> > There's OpenSSL, with the wrapper that was recently posted...
> > My latest and newest and bestest API friend sys$acm[w]...
> > Or... well, all sorts of other calls within VMS and various LPs.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Complex can also be flexible.  Easy to use can also be rigid.
> 
> And it's possible for things to go to extremes in either direction. 
> That's why we end up writing wrappers for some things that provide some 
> ease of use for our particular usage of a tool.

Some wrappers don't have sensible defaults for omitted parameters either.

I once worked with a set of RMS wrappers which defaulted to read with 
lock.  We had some battles about that one :-)

-- 
Paul Sture