[Info-vax] How do I make zip, unzip etc. available to all users?

abrsvc dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 9 10:30:52 EST 2016


> Live patches have been around for Unix for a while with now-at-Oracle 
> Ksplice, and similar capabilities has been added to Linux 4.   That 
> kernel patching infrastructure is, of course, a non-trivial part of how 
> far behind OpenVMS is, in this area.   OpenVMS can't manage to unload 
> device drivers, for that matter.

I'm not convinced that allowing kernel level patching is a god thing with a running system.  Doesn't that provide a rather large invitation to problems? How much easier would it be to install viruses at the OS level should this be allowed?

Dan



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