[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.2-1 Password policy

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/21/2023 9:15 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 22/07/2023 00:41, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> Now I have installed all the major compilers. Pascal, Fortran, C work
>> fine but for some mysterious reason, the C++ compiler refuses to
>> compile code moaning about permission denied trying to open C++
>> headers.
>>
>> For exmaple:
>> Alex (KAKAPO) > cxx quick2.cpp
>> In file included from DKA0:[USERS.ALEX.CPROGS]QUICK2.CPP;1:1:
>> In file included from
>> /SYS$COMMON/VSICXX$LIB/INCLUDE/LIB_CXX/INCLUDE/iostream:42:
>> /SYS$COMMON/VSICXX$LIB/INCLUDE/LIB_CXX/INCLUDE/__config:1132:46: fatal
>> error: cannot open file '/SYS$COMMON/VSICXX$LIB/INCLUDE/SYS$S
>> TARLET_C/pthread.h': permission denied
>>        (defined(__MINGW32__) && __has_include(<pthread.h>))
>>                                               ^
>> 1 error generated.
>>
>> This C++ compiler is VSI-X86VMS-CXX-A1000-230616-1.ZIP, taken right off
>> the VSI website.
>>
>> I've checked and I can see the hesders in the directories from my tst
>> account.
>>
>> But the pthread.h thing makes me suspicious as the code I'm compiling
>> just outputs "Hello, world" and uses nothing else!
> 
> I think the header protection issue was raised on the VSI forum, and 
> reported by jreagan at the end of last month. See:
> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=8657

Besides a list of some stuff ported to VMS x86-64 then:

https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/x64.html

also list a few known issues including this one.

Arne