As I recall the FORCEX system service also takes an optional status code to be used by the exiting subprocess... don't know if that helps or not.
On Saturday 06 September 2008 15:33, Hein van den Heuvel wrote: > You may want to check out SYS$FORCEX > That would kill an (perl) image but leave DCL (command file) running. > > In more recent OpenVMS version this is also availabel as DCL command > STOP/IMAGE. The system service has always been there. > > fwiw, > Hein. > > > > > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Craig A. Berry wrote: > > > >> Given the rate of Nicholas's integrations, this is now somewhat old news, > >> but here's where things were as of sometime last night with a -Dusethreads > >> build on OpenVMS Alpha v8.3: > >> > >> ext/threads/t/free2.........................FAILED--expected 78 tests, saw > >> 65 > >> ext/threads/t/free..........................FAILED--expected 29 tests, saw > >> 1 > >> > >> These are new and also fail in blead. The watchdog that is supposed to > >> only kill a stuck process is definitely not waiting 120 seconds, and when it > >> fires it takes out the process from which Perl was started. Maybe that's > >> intentional, but it did surprise me the first time my telnet session > >> disappeared. > >> > > > > It is a side effect of the method used to kill the perl process because of > > the difference between VMS and Unix. > > > > On Unix the perl program runs with its own process ID. With VMS, the perl > > program runs in the process ID of the shell. > > > > So it is the shell that is being killed instead of the Perl program. > > > > > >> For now this is just a report, but I will start investigating that > >> watchdog and see if I can tame it. > >> > > > > We need to have a method of killing the Perl process with out killing the > > shell on VMS. > > > > Since the test harness spawns a new shell for each test, it does not stop > > the test from running, but it sure makes it hard to do the debug. > > > > -John > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Personal Opinion Only > > > > **PerlJacket** deleted text/html part. >
