[Info-vax] VAX Common Lisp

Robert Carleton rbc at rbcarleton.com
Mon Oct 24 18:06:47 EDT 2022


On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 4:38:33 PM UTC-5, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On 10/24/22 4:00 PM, Robert Carleton wrote: 
> > It sounds like the Lisp application would need to make use of DLM to 
> > use the VMS cluster facilities.
> Sometimes that's as simple as "open a file" and let RMS do the rest. 
> But it does depend somewhat on what you want clustering for in the first 
> place.

Lisp implementations frequently have the ability to save an image of their state to disk. Coordinating one cluster node to save the image, then have a new process start on a different cluster node from the image should be possible. Is there a C API for DLM?



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