[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Chris Townley]

On 25/01/2021 20:27, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On 1/25/21 11:35 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2021-01-25 17:25:09 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>>
>>> In article <rumtou$mrk$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
>>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
>>>> maybe fix the inexplicable SYS$SCRATCH default of SYS$LOGIN,
>>>
>>> Presumably, SYS$LOGIN is the only directory which can be counted on 
>>> to  exist.
>>
>> I'd wager it was a good-enough shortcut during development, rather 
>> than actually implementing viable and automatically-managed temporary 
>> storage.
> 
> It's probably a better default than dumping everything in a
> world-writable /tmp, which I'm pretty sure was the contemporary solution
> on other systems at the time VMS made SYS$LOGIN the default. But yes, it
> would be nice if 40 years on someone had gotten around to secure,
> configurable, auto-purging scratch space that didn't drop things in the
> user's home directory.

You can always redefine sys$scratch to point to a sub-directory of sys$login

Done that for years

Chris