Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!ulysses!ggs From: ggs@ulysses.att.com (Griff Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Survey Message-ID: <13726@ulysses.att.com> Date: 11 Sep 90 13:24:07 GMT References: <6f7y02Ubc6wm01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <25894@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 In article , fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: > (2) Tape device management. Another capability supported in > mainframe operating systems is the ability to gain exclusive > control of a tape device, request that a tape be mounted, and > release the device when the user is finished with it. We would > like to have this capability in our UNIX environment as well. > Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState > Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921 Part of this is available now, at least for academic sites. I have a resource manager that we use to control access to tape drives on our systems. The operator request part will probably come soon. The down side: academic only, SunOS and BSD only, source not available yet because of licensing problems (sigh), not ported to System V yet. The up side: it's free if you qualify. See the proceedings of the 1989 Baltimore Summer USENIX convention for details. -- Griff Smith AT&T (Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill Phone: 1-201-582-7736 UUCP: {most AT&T sites}!ulysses!ggs Internet: ggs@ulysses.att.com