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- Subject: Re: FLAME ALERT>> DECnet and OSI
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- From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
- Date: 5 Nov 92 10:20:49 GMT
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- DEREK@U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
- > Don Stokes provided a short little routine which, run in kernel mode,
- > would set the PCB$M_NODELET bit in a PCB. Just thought I would point
- > out that this bit is only being tested in "newer" versions of VMS. It's
- > been there as far back as I can remember, but used to not work. I think
- > it started being tested back in V5.4, but cannot say for sure. If you
- > are running an older version of VMS, it might not prevent you from logging
- > out.
-
- I'm fairly sure this coincided with the implementation of the audit server.
- That would have been around V5.2ish, but the NODELET bit may have been
- implemented earlier in anticipation of an "unkillable" audit server.
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