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- From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
- Subject: Re: re: Re: Passing parameters to detached processes.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.170428.1518@pony.Ingres.COM>
- References: <1i8q3mINNdbj@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:04:28 GMT
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- From article <1i8q3mINNdbj@gap.caltech.edu>, by carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick):
- > In article <31DEC199209423681@author.gsfc.nasa.gov>, rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
- >>In article <9212301623.AA19674@uu3.psi.com>, leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter) writes...
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>Note that running LOGINOUT to map the CLI in this way is itself undocumented
- >>>and unsupported....
- >
- > Where?
- Where what? Which where? Who's on first?
- Are you really asking where it's undocumented? (Like Woody Allen's joke about
- the atheist and the agnostic who couldn't decide which religion not to bring
- their kids up in.)
-
- >And could you please specify things explicitly enough that we'd have
- > a chance of knowing what you're talking about? The post to which I'm replying
- > is the sort of thing that those who object to my flames should *REALLY* be
- > complaining about.
-
- It was entirely clear in this post what Jerry was warning about, the
- old trick of
-
- $ RUN/DETACH SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT/INPUT=something.COM
-
- to get a detached process which runs a CLI. To inject a little content into
- this flamefest, can anyone:
-
- 1. Verify that this technique is unsupported.
- 2. Suggest a supported way to acomplish the same thing.
- (The only thing that comes to mind is submitting a batch job. This will
- work fine with a suitably configured batch queue, but programs don't
- always run on systems the developer manages.)
- 3. Comment on the probability of such code breaking in the future.
-
- Mike
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