[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-22, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/22/2023 11:06 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>> On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 10:48 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> If DEC had been able to see into the future then they
>>> may have gone with C.
>> 
>> IF they had, VMS would have had a shitload of exploits against it.
>> Thankfully they didn't and avoided a lot of issues that plagues most
>> operating systems written in C.
>
> Maybe.
>
> C is very unsafe compared to almost all other high level
> languages.
>

Yes, very much so. I believe I have expressed alternative preferences
in the past. :-)

> But I don't think it is more unsafe than Macro-32.
>
>:-)

:-)

Even with C, the compiler can find problems in your code that simply
are not possible in assembly language. (A pointer which references
the wrong structure type, unused variables, dodgy type conversions, etc).

>
> Anyway: Windows and Linux has not failed commercially
> due to the buffer overflows.
>
>:-)
>

And Linux has security enhancements such as SELinux, ASLR, etc that
simply do not have any comparable functionality in the VMS world.

Simon.

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