[Info-vax] VMS enhancement suggestion: Add a "read regardless" file open option.

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In article <roc13r$g2k$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2020-11-09, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2020-11-09 13:30:23 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>
>>> What would be involved in adding a "read regardless" file open option 
>>> to VMS which would allow the opening of files for read only even if 
>>> they are already open for write, and then adding a qualifier to $ TYPE 
>>> to use this new option ?
>>> 
>>> How useful would others here find this capability ?
>>
>> Not all that useful, as I'm not usually looking to access what can be 
>> inconsistent data.
>>
>
>Stephen, have you ever worked in commercial data processing ?

ROTFLMFAO!



>There are plenty of uses for such a facility, none of which involve
>data integrity issues.

It'd be much simpler to add shared-read to those log files. ;)

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