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  2. From: goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET (Hunter Goatley)
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
  4. Subject: RE: re: idle terminal...
  5. Message-ID: <00963263.03E9BF40.31576@WKUVX1.BITNET>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 13:18:55 GMT
  7. Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
  8. Lines: 32
  9. X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
  10.  
  11. don@zl2tnm.gen.nz writes:
  12. >
  13. >In article <009631D4.196251A0.31400@WKUVX1.BITNET>, Hunter Goatley
  14. > <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET> writes:
  15. >> There is a way to avoid these too.  I had to do this once for software
  16. >> that I didn't want $DELPRCed, $FORCEXed, *or* suspended.  Set the
  17. >> following bits in the PCB:
  18. >>
  19. >>         PCB$V_SUSPEN            !Suspend is pending
  20. >>         PCB$V_DELPEN            !Delete is pending
  21. >>         PCB$V_FORCPEN           !FORCEX is pending
  22. >
  23. >Neat.
  24. >
  25. >        =TOYVAX=> stop "_TWA6:"
  26. >        =TOYVAX=> set proc "_TWA6:"/susp
  27. >        %SET-E-NOTSET, process _TWA6:, PID=00001216, not suspended
  28. >        -SYSTEM-W-NONEXPR, nonexistent process
  29. >        =TOYVAX=> sh proc "_TWA6:"
  30. >        %SYSTEM-F-SUSPENDED, process is suspended
  31. >
  32. >That should confuse 'em.
  33. >
  34. 8-)  Yeah, I forgot to mention that $DELPRC will return successfully
  35. when DELPEN is set.  That's what made this fun---with a security
  36. package I once worked on, people would try to STOP/ID the detached
  37. process and would get frustrated wondering why it didn't go away....
  38.  
  39. Hunter
  40. ------
  41. Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
  42. goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
  43.