I'm happy I've got you working but as I said it's a circumvention. Dons 
solution is the way to go. 

> On 21 Mar 2016, at 8:05 PM, Robin Atwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I first tried David's suggestion of using BPX1MSD (because that was quite
> painless) and it worked! Each of my modules has a #pragma runops(POSIX(ON))
> and a call to BPX1MSD in their initialisation routine. They are started one
> at a time and they all now come up and the gsk calls still work. So, for the
> time being, I am back in business. 
> 
> Thanks
> Robin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Don Poitras
> Sent: 21 March 2016 18:35
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Linking C module with SSL
> 
> It's for attaching a program as a new process. To z/OS, it just looks like a
> new TCB that's a daughter of the caller. You can still pass it an ECB and it
> can run POSIX(ON). I really think this is all you need to do to get what you
> want.
> 
> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Looking at the doc BPX1ATM seems to be for 
>> attaching a TCB to a process, which is not our situation. We need to 
>> attach a TCB to a TCB and pass the new TCB an ECB in the usual way. 
>> However, I will bear it in mind!
> 
>> Thanks
>> Robin
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> On Behalf Of Don Poitras
>> Sent: 18 March 2016 20:49
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Linking C module with SSL
> 
>> Try using BPX1ATM (attach_execmvs) rather than ATTACH.
> 
>> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
>>> We have a lot of HLASM and XL/C modules doing 
>>> attach/wait/post/detach. The
>> problem seems to be that the POSIX(ON) is not inherited by an attached 
>> subtask. Recoding to use threads and semaphores would effectively be 
>> rewriting the server - I'll think I'll leave that for the next generation!
>> It's a bit poor that IBM's SSL implementation does not properly 
>> support traditional MVS programs; it's a part of TCP/IP, after all. I 
>> tried experimenting with BPX1SDD (set_dub_default) to make TCB's 
>> processes and threads but I still got the EDC5167I.
> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Robin
> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Crayford
>>> Sent: 17 March 2016 21:18
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Linking C module with SSL
> 
>>>> On 17/03/2016 10:05 PM, Robin Atwood wrote:
>>>> Now I have hit the problem I thought might be lurking. The module 
>>>> I
>> fixed before with the POSIX(ON) pragma is the listener. It attaches a 
>> number of worker tasks it givesockets an incoming session to. When the 
>> worker does its takesocket it must then do a gsk_secure_socket_open() 
>> to start the SSL handshake. This failed with a EDC5167I so I added the
> POSIX(ON) pragma.
>> Restarting, the STC immediately failed in a call to BPX1MSS, rc=156, 
>> rsn= 0D070201, which means:
> 
>>> I take it you are attaching your subtasks using MVS services. That 
>>> won't
>> happen if you use pthreads.
> 
>>>> JRAlreadySigSetUp: BPX1MSS found the process already set up for 
>>>> signals
>>>> Action: Only one task can be set up for signals at any one time.  
>>>> Issue the signal unset (BPX1MSD) service on the task that did the 
>>>> last setup and then reissue this service.
>>>> 
>>>> So it seems I can only have POSIX(ON) in one TCB? That's a bit of 
>>>> a showstopper. :(
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Robin
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills
>>>> Sent: 14 March 2016 21:24
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: Linking C module with SSL
>>>> 
>>>> Yup ...
>>>> 
>>>> Be aware that changing to POSIX(ON) will introduce other subtle 
>>>> changes
>> in behavior. For example, fopen()'s decision on what is a legacy 
>> dataset and what is a UNIX file changes. I was surprised to see that 
>> DD:SYSPRINT was now the name of a new UNIX file and happily created it
> under /u/! Really.
>>>> 
>>>>> Is this telling me SSL can only be used under USS?
>>>> Yes, but realize that USS is z/OS, and you can have a program that 
>>>> runs
>> from conventional JCL and looks externally like it could have been 
>> written in 1970 that in fact "runs under USS."
>>>> 
>>>> Charles
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robin Atwood
>>>> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:40 AM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: Linking C module with SSL
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks. I had just spotted Charles's post back in 2012 with the 
>>>> same problem and used a pragma. Now the init function fails with 
>>>> 202 (KEYRING OPEN ERROR) but that looks like an admin problem. :)
> 
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