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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Creating subprocess with $CREPRC; preservation of symbols/logicals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.110315.1099@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 11:03:15 PST
- References: <C0I3xM.84F@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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- In article <C0I3xM.84F@acsu.buffalo.edu>, masmummy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
- > I have a program that needs the use of $CREPRC to create a subprocess.
- > I think LIB$SPAWN is great, but I cannot alter quotas with it.
-
- There are limitations on how you can affect quotas with $CREPRC for
- subprocesses, too.
-
- > My problem lies in preserving symbols and/or logicals.
- > Is there any way (with normal privileges) that I can pass information to
- > this subprocess (I need to give it a stream about 80 characters long), without
- > resorting to files, mailboxes, and such?
-
- How about creating a logical name in the job logical name table?
-
- > It appears to me (I am not an expert)
- > that LIB$SPAWN copies the symbol and logical tables over by default. Can I
- > do that with $CREPRC, too?
-
- not unless you implement it yourself. LIB$SPAWN does it with mailboxes.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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