On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:52:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>>
>>>Also, what benefit comes from changing IEBCOPY from AC(1) to AC(0)?
>>
>>The obvious one: it will work when invoked by an unauthorized program.
>> 
>I don't think so; if I were to relink IEBCOPY with AC(1) into an authorized
>library, it would work equally well when called from an unauthorized program.

The benefit that Shmuel mentioned is not due to the fact that it changed from 
AC(1) to AC(0). The change that provided the benefit was to remove the 
requirement that it run APF authorized. Having done that, there is no longer a 
reason for it to be linked AC(1).

-- 
Tom Marchant

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