[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pv8e5t$f9h$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> > I actually still like logicals and kind of miss them!
> > 
> > One possibility to consider is that on at least on Linux, it's possible 
> > to create a library that can intercept calls to things like open, 
> > creat, stat, and the like so that one could implement your own notion 
> > of logicals on at least a per process basis.
> 
> Hard links and soft links are familiar to many folks and current 
> OpenVMS supports those.

One use for logicals, out of many.

One really interesting thing are cluster-wide logical names.  They don't 
have to be in the cluster table; they could be in a group table with the 
cluster table as the parent (I wonder if I was the first to think of 
this).  Software running in multiple batch queues across several nodes 
can thus easily communicate.