[Info-vax] Desirable features for VMS

[Dan Cross]

In article <uotn92$2ais1$1 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-01-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 1/24/2024 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2024-01-23, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What is really rude is talking about Linux on c.o.v ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Unless you consider VMS to be perfect and not in need of any improvement,
>>> other operating systems offer some good ideas that it would be nice to
>>> see in VMS, especially around security and internal isolation in general.
>>>
>>
>> Then discuss the ideas and concepts ...
>>
>
>OK.
>
>A random sample of things from Linux/Unix I would like to see in VMS:
>
>Mandatory Access Controls (my preference) or jails (Stephen's preference).
>
>A shell with decent modern functionality such as:
>
>	Proper command history retention and merging from multiple sessions
>	Easy searching of command history
>	Tab completion
>	Editing long command lines
>	Globbing
>
>Proper package management and management of updates.
>
>Loadable and unloadable kernel modules, with device driver/filesystem/etc
>functionality available from within these modules.
>
>ASLR and KASLR support.
>
>Proper timezone management. (Everything is always UTC based, and your
>timezone is merely a local session property with no effect on the
>on-disk timestamps).
>
>The last one is policy-based, not technical:
>
>A vendor that has proper security reporting mechanisms.
>
>Does anyone have any others to add to the list ?

Some sort of userspace pluggable filesystem support.
FUSE, 9P + a mount driver, whatever.

	- Dan C.