[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 23:40:33 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/5/2024 9:33 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> And another service for the privileges.
> 
> A lot is possible if one is willing to put enough effort into it.

Remember that we have lots of off-the-shelf toolkits to call on. For 
example, not having to invent our own hash-table format because we have 
open-source libraries for that now.