[Info-vax] RMS - Wish list

[Dave Froble]

On 10/15/2021 12:01 PM, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2021 at 11:39:10 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2021-10-15 06:19:14 +0000, Greg Tinkler said:
>>
>>> As a follow on from my previous post
>>>
>>> UDF
>>> files you can sequentially get/put, but you cannot access using RFA.
>>> This would be useful, yup there is no defined record but the buffer
>>> size is all that is needed. 'record' locking is based on RFA so shared
>>> access should not be a problem.
>
>> You're asking for what a stream file provides.
>
> Noop.
> At least not for stream files in RMS terms, accessed through RMS.
> For access to stream files through RMS you cannot just specify a size.
> RMS will hunt for terminators as per specific stream attribute.
>
> Hein.
>

Correct.  Attempting to lock some data of unknown size is rather interesting.
Which is why the starting address and the size would be needed for a lock.  Or,
starting byte number and ending byte number.

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