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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: PRV$M_SETPRI
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Date: 23 Jun 88 17:08:16 GMT
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 > SYS$LIBRARY: PRVDEF.H defines a privilege mask bit PRV$M_SETPRI.  It is
 > not the same as either ALTPRI or SETPRV.  I haven't found this discussed
 > anywhere.  Can someone tell me what it is for, please?

The following four lines are extracted from SYS$SHARE:PRVDEF.H:
	#define PRV$M_ALTPRI	0x00002000
	#define PRV$M_SETPRI	0x00002000
	#define PRV$V_ALTPRI	0x0D
	#define PRV$V_SETPRI    0x0D
So PRV$SETPRI and PRV$ALTPRI are the same. We're running VMS v4.7, VAX C
v2.3-024.