[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/25/21 2:39 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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

So have I, but that's not the default, which is what Hoff complained about.