Re: Re: quit files

"Gerhard Postpischil [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
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On 6/22/2019 7:38 PM, kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
> When "quit" is entered, it's time to close
> the thread for sure.

That can lead to data corruption. Three guesses how I know.

> If MVS isn't shut down cleanly, then any data
> that MVS may have been buffering may be lost.
> I don't have a problem with "quit" causing an
> interrupted MVS task leaving disks in a bad
> state.

Losing data is relatively minor compared to screwing up a directory or VTOC.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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