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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: LIB$SPAWN and privileges...
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:41:17 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <01GTXJV9AHTU000EP7@SCI.WFEB.EDU> <1k2kdtINNs62@gap.caltech.edu>,<1993Jan26.141100@mccall.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.141100@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
- =
- =In article <1k2kdtINNs62@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J
- =Lydick) writes:
- =>In article <01GTXJV9AHTU000EP7@SCI.WFEB.EDU>, MACRIDES@SCI.WFEB.EDU (Foteos
- =>Macrides) writes:
- =>= Has anybody written a SYS$PURGE and/or SYS$RENAME system service? I
- =>=want to do some file cleanup operations from a CtrlY-trapping AST, and can't
- =>=use LIB$SPAWN or system() cuz the child process can't bring the parent back
- =>=out of hibernation.
- =>
- =>Do you have any idea what system services *ARE*? Why don't you also ask for a
- =>C compiler system service?
- =
- =Yeah, or a system service to format text, or format time values, ACLs, or
- =security events into pretty ascii strings, or encrypt passwords!
-
- Please note that none of these do I/O.
-
- =Oh, I guess it
- =has those. They'll put anything in there, won't they? Of course, since it does
- =file I/O, the C compiler would have to be an RMS routine, not a system service.
-
- Gee, Terry. I guess PURGE and RENAME don't also do file I/O, do they?
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