Does DECW$TRUSTED_UNPAUSE work?

[Galen Tackett]

The New Features manual for DECwindows V1.3 describes a feature that allows a specified user to unlock DECwindows sessions that have been paused by someone else. It's supposed to work like this:

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM DECW$TRUSTED_UNPAUSE username

After which that user should be able to unlock any paused sessions on that system by entering the password to their own account (or so I've been told).

Has anyone got this working? I sure can't at this point.

[Martin Kirby]

There is a bug. It doesn't work, at all.

Martin Kirby

[Galen Tackett]

I searched thru the .exe files in sys$system, cde$path, and even sys$library and couldn't find the string TRUSTED_UNPAUSE in any of them.

So for whatever reason it appears this feature's implementation didn't even make it into the released binaries.

[Martin Kirby · Accepted solution]

I guess my answer was a bit terse:-)

A build error indeed meant the code didn't make it into the final build. The build has been fixed for the upcoming V8.2 OpenVMS (it is an OpenVMS not layered product file).

The fix may be released in a patch kit for V7.3-2 in the future, but no schedule for when.

If you have a support contract and need the fix before then please request it through your support contacts.

Martin Kirby