Having the correct time on your module is critical for all kinds of activities including log synchronization and security certificate validation.
Unless good records are kept when VOS products are installed, determining the revision of all the products on a module can be a daunting task.
I maintain a document that describes the best practices for porting open-source code to VOS or OpenVOS. Read on for more information.
The other day I came across a program that allowed me to select from a prepackaged set of queries and then communicated with a server to retrieve the answer to the selected query.
I just ported the lzip file compression utility program to OpenVOS. Read on for more information.
The following STCP code fragment demonstrates a problem that I have observed. It blocks on the recv call until there is data to read, then it processes the received data and calls recv again which will either return with more data (or an error) or block.
I have never forgotten the way I installed my first change (and my first bug) into Multics. Read on to hear my story.
Recently while troubleshooting a connection problem this question arose. The OpenVOS system was connecting to a public Internet facing server.