[Info-vax] OpenVMS - file selection abnormally with Copy / Rename or user ignorance?

[JF Mezei]

On 15-03-28 16:00, Michael Moroney wrote:

> It bypasses the usual VMS file locking mechanism so that the contents
> BACKUP gets may not be consistent as a writer may be asynchronously 
> writing or changing data.

But Backup/ignore-=interlock does issue a warning when it encounters a
file currently opened for write by another process.

Hoff mentioned that those reports are not "complete".  So was wondering
under what circumstances Backup would NOT report a potential for the log
file not having indication that a file may have inconsistent data.