[Info-vax] Device locked by non existing process.

[DaveFroble]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11:06:39 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2018-05-04 01:38:00 +0000, Arne Vajh  j said:
>>
>>> On 4/23/2018 6:32 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>>>> Yes, IPv6 probably "should" be a default, but on at least one recent 
>>>> program I did it with IPv4 because it wasn't worth swimming through the 
>>>> septic tank to make IPv6 work. There was a legitimate reason, but I 
>>>> would have to look at the code to remember.
>>> Good socket code work with both IPv4 and IPv6 without changes.
>> Ayup.  That works fine across IPv4 and IPv6.  TLS and DTLS above that 
>> gets gnarly, in terms of the complexity of the APIs and the sorts of 
>> examples available, and given the problematic implementation of TLS and 
>> certificates on OpenVMS.
>>
> 
> Correct. when you are at the academic "consider a spherical cow" stage of development
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spot_the_cow.gif
> 
> it's all pure and wonderful. If OpenVMS implemented a TCPIP Software Appliance like IBM and Unisys appear to be doing, one wouldn't even know.
> 
> The baby goes out with the bathwater as soon as you start having to needlessly shoehorn transport layer security WITH RETRY and RECONNECT logic because now you have to carry an awful lot of luggage. The vintage of the C compiler adds insult to injury.

Well, if you didn't make the mistake of using C ....

:-)

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