[Info-vax] VMS-based distributed computing project?

John E. Malmberg wb8tyw at qsl.network
Sun Mar 15 13:49:20 EDT 2015


On 3/15/2015 8:18 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 3/14/15 10:59 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>      Back in '06, I tried to get the (then) new BOINC code to
>> work on VMS, without much success.  The C RTL lacked (and, I
>> believe still lacks) support for the UNIX shared memory
>> functions
>
> System V shared memory functions came along in the 8.4 era:
>
> http://www.deltatelecom.ru/sys$common/syshlp/SHARED_MEMORY_APIS_IN_OPENVMS_CRTL.TXT
>
>> and UNIX sockets.
>
> An emulated form of these came along in TCPIP 5.7 ECO2. It wasn't
> documented anywhere except the release notes and you had to scrounge for
> a un.h, which may have been added by a later ECO.

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Regards,
-John






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