[Info-vax] How dangerous is it to be able to get into DCL supervisor mode

[Hans Bachner]

Jan-Erik Soderholm schrieb am 05.07.2017 um 23:57:
> Den 2017-07-05 kl. 19:42, skrev Bob Koehler:
>> In article <ojj3gf$ola$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>>
>>> My memory, remember, we're talking over 30 years, is that if the
>>> conditions for
>>> an exception handler were met, whatever they are, then the exception
>>> handler(s)
>>> will be invoked.
>>
>>     There are many situations in which VMS will skip user mode handlers.
>>
>>     For example, if you stop a process with STOP, user mode handlers get
>>     skipped.  We had a utility program that would do a force exit on the
>>     process instead.
>>
>
> "Forced exit". That looks like one of the the options when closing
> an Rdb database. Forcex looks like the "softer" method...

Yup. $FORCEX runs the user mode handlers allowing for a "cleaner" exit 
of the image running in the target process. Bob already indicated that.

Hans.