[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/28/2018 5:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-05-28, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> If we agree that there are valid reasons to have both EXEC and
>> KRNL mode, then let us get to whether we need two privs CMEXEC
>> and CMKRNL or just one CMKRNL.
>>
>> De facto then both CMEXEC and CMKRNL implies full privs. So
>> there is no security difference.
> 
> I see what you are saying now. Given the way you worded it, I thought
> you were maybe thinking I was talking about $CMEXEC the system service,
> not CMEXEC the privilege.

I was indeed thinking that your argument was about EXEC mode being
redundant and therefore CMEXEC priv being redundant.

Arne