[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 09:23:36 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> Another example:
> 
> SYS$SETPRV with PRV$M_SYSNAM  followed by SYS$CRELNM with LNM$_TABLE as
> "LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE".
> 
> The API is not that complex. The semantics on VMS is well documented.
> 
> But the code does not really make any sense on Linux. So what to do?

We can emulate logical names on Linux beyond the per-process ones with a 
server process and communication via some IPC mechanism. D-Bus or Varlink 
might be good enough for this.