[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 3/10/2020 5:48 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/10/2020 3:17 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> For one thing, any new operating system would need to be able to support
>> VMS style DLM capabilities in the kernel as well as VMS style clustering,
>> also in the kernel.
> 
> I haven't studied it from this particular perspective, and without doing so 
> would only be guessing.  But I have to ask, why do you state this. As far as I 
> know the VMS DLM has not much to do with the "kernel" of VMS, supposing there is 
> a definition of that entity.

The lock manager is very much part of the kernel.

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                  -- Rob