Hi Larry,
> From an internals perspective, it seems to me it was retaining a handle
> to the persona beyond its apparent lifetime.
Excellent! How exactly would one accomplish that?
> Well, yes and no. While the political drivel is annoying, this nuance
> of a small bugfix may not be worth discussion. Certainly it should have
> been in the release notes (and I have not looked myself to see that it
> is missing), but learning the details does not seem really useful to
> those of us who do not have regular access to the source of Rdb.
Why does it appear to be only me that sees this persona stuff as heralding
in nothing less than a revolutionary, avant-garde sea-change in server
system design? I understand that there are developers out there, such as
yourself, that see a thousand users and automatically create a thousand
threads but if you take a minute to allow for the possibility that there
may
be advantages in a design where a given process may wish to swap persona
for
each unit of work in a client/server environment then you might just find
it
useful to obtain the answers to the conundrums that I am posing. (ACMS has
certainly never done this, and dear God please let it be true that Rdb
engineering has been tightening up it's session level security all these
years!!!)
> Perhaps the best lesson learned would be if someone from Rdb would
> give the details to VMS Do***entation to see if something about
> persona manipulation needs more emphasis in the do***entation.
I Agree 100%
Regards Richard Maher
"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <d0bokl$rua$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Richard Maher"
<maher_rj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > So it is clearly something Rdb was doing that
> > prevented the persona from dying. But what?
>
> From an internals perspective, it seems to me it was retaining a handle
> to the persona beyond its apparent lifetime.
>
> > I scanned through the Rdb
> > release notes and could not find anything. Surely this is a lot more
> > interesting then most of the crap that gets beaten to death in COV?
>
> Well, yes and no. While the political drivel is annoying, this nuance
> of a small bugfix may not be worth discussion. Certainly it should have
> been in the release notes (and I have not looked myself to see that it
> is missing), but learning the details does not seem really useful to
> those of us who do not have regular access to the source of Rdb.
>
> Perhaps the best lesson learned would be if someone from Rdb would
> give the details to VMS Do***entation to see if something about
> persona manipulation needs more emphasis in the do***entation.
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