warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) (01/27/89)
Is there any reason to have RIGHTLIST.DAT open all the time while emacs is running under VMS? I just did a SHOW DEVICE/FILES on my system disk an noticed that rightslist.dat was open for each and every process running EMACS. Also, is there a sharable version of EMACS that shares as much memory as possible? Or do I just have to INSTALL it /SHARED and life is good. Versions: VAX C 2.2 VMS 4.5 EMACS 18.51 (GNU) -- Warner Losh warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu ...!unmvax!nmtsun!warner%hydrovax What happened to our innocence, did it go out of style? My spelling and views are my own. Only the letters have been changed...
hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) (02/03/89)
In article <1746@nmtsun.nmt.edu> warner@hydrovax.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes: >Is there any reason to have RIGHTLIST.DAT open all the time while emacs is >running under VMS? I just did a SHOW DEVICE/FILES on my system disk an >noticed that rightslist.dat was open for each and every process running EMACS. It is VMS, not EMACS, which is leaving RIGHTSLIST.DAT open. When you (or EMACS) call a system service which accesses RIGHTSLIST.DAT it is left open until the image exits (under the assumption that you will be accessing it again). This is so you get: OPEN ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS ACCESS CLOSE ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ first call 2nd 3rd ... image exit rather than: OPEN ACCESS CLOSE OPEN ACCESS CLOSE OPEN ACCESS CLOSE .... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ first call 2nd 3rd .... John Hascall ISU Comp Center