On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Stas Bekman wrote: > Steve Hay wrote: > > Steve Hay wrote: > > > >> The attached patch skips the new getppid() test (perl/api.t) on Win32 > >> since getppid() is unimplemented on this platform! > > Weird: > > % perldoc -f getppid > =item getppid > > Returns the process id of the parent process. > > Is it a bug in perl? why a non-portable function lives in perlfunc.pod?
I think the portability issues have been relegated to perlport.pod, which reports that getppid is indeed unimplemented on Win32. > Doesn't POSIX.pm provide a similar implementation? It's also unimplemented under POSIX.pm. -- best regards, randy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
