[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

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On Sat, 2024-01-06 at 02:33 +0000, 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.

if setenv() and getenv() were thread-safe it'd be easier to use these.
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