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- From: 9120092@ul.ie
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Mailbox access
- Message-ID: <20303.2b5bb282@ul.ie>
- Date: 19 Jan 93 07:49:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland
- Lines: 23
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- Firstly thanks to all who replied to my previous posting, it was all very
- helpfull. Now just to put your minds to the test again as I'm having
- difficulty with mailboxes. My lecturer in Computer Organisiation wasn't
- able to give any solutions to the problem of writting to a mailbox
- created by another user. So far I can create mailboxes and pass data
- to a subprocess of my account but can not do the same to a mailbox in
- another account. This is primerily caused by VMS which takes a mailboxes
- name and places the pointer to that device in the PCB. So when a mailbox
- is created instead of being "My-Mailbox" and being open for group
- access it is infact "My-PID.My-Mailbox" which tends to throw a spanner
- in the works for me as I can not get around that protection.
- I think IO$Write_Attention gets involved some where but I'm not sure.
- Am I right about the mailbox protection. any suggestions on getting
- around it?
-
- Thanks
-
- Peter.
-
- Peter O'Brien, E-Mail 9120092@ul.ie
-
- The expressions expressed here are my expressions and
- nothing but my expressions, so help my God!
-