Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:48:21 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: caps in elf, next itteration (the hack get's bigger) |
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > AIX and Netware both have transaction support. Perhaps the record > support isn't so popular, but it seems to fit with transactions. > VMS and Netware at least (don't know about AIX) support transactions > over the network.
On VMS record I/O isn't a kernel issue anyway. RMS is a library -- the only I/O syscall is SYS$QIO[W] which just moves blocks. RMS also handles the fancy locking needed by simple transaction systems. Only the locking primitives themselves are kernel functions. On days when I feel like offending thousands at a stroke, I toy with the idea of writing an RMS-like library for Unix. :-)
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu I'm one of the few people I know who used RMS on TOPS-20, too.
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