[Info-vax] DCL enhancements

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <run9j1$j2k$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
<craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> 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.

One can set up a scratch disk, create a directory for the user there in 
SYS$SYLOGIN if it doesn't exist, and run a job to delete stuff regularly 
there.  Just a few lines of code.