[Info-vax] Mailbox driver analysis regarding greater than 65535 messages in mailbox

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/30/2020 6:29 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> With minimal investigation (about an hour, which includes some email 
> conversation), we suspect the proper way to deal with
> this is to return an error to a writer if the mailbox has 65535 messages 
> and to document this limitation.

I think it makes sense.

Supporting >=64K properly will break a lot.

And mailboxes should not be used to buffer that
many messages.

But OP had some unique requirements.

Arne

PS: So SS$_TOO_MUCH_IN_THIS_POOR_MAILBOX ?  :-)