On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, David Fetter wrote: > * Shell access from several accounts > * Git or cvs client > * Compiler tools > * Perl of a fairly recent vintage > * Outbound http access
I had access to the HP testdrive before they closed it down (the Unix servers were down in Sept 08, but the VMS cluster was running till Jan 2010). They blocked all outbound internet access to the testdrive servers -- only telnet and ftp were allowed. Count me in for the OpenVMS porting effort (but I guess I will apply for an account seperately as I might port other things to OpenVMS in the future). I believe the porting effort is larger than a new Unix port but smaller than the Windows port, as most of the Unix and POSIX functions and system calls are supported on OpenVMS. MySQL has around 10 functions changed or written specifically for OpenVMS, most of those are related to utime(), $UMASK & $UMASKDIR, open(), and Unix pathnames. (I think utime() support was added a few years ago to OpenVMS 7.3 & 8.0 -- so may be the code was added to MySQL for earlier VMS versions.) PostgreSQL uses fork(), which is not supported on OpenVMS. However, the techniques used by the WIN32 version of internal_forkexec() in src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c give the VMS version a good starting point. Lastly, are we going to support ODS-2 disks?? And are we going to require GNV installed for building and running PostgreSQL on OpenVMS?? Rayson > > Warm Regards, > David. > > -- > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ > Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter > Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com > iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics > > Remember to vote! > Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers