Re: pipes again (Re: Todo issues on VMS:)

2005-10-24 Thread John E. Malmberg
Charles Lane wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 17:02, Craig A. Berry wrote: At 4:19 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: Mailbox size limitations are the culprit; you'd think "oh, just make the mailboxes really huge", but that runs into the limits of normal "user" accounts. Having Perl r

Re: pipes again (Re: Todo issues on VMS:)

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Lane
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 17:02, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 4:19 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: > > >>>* Bash shell support. This needs lots of work. Pipes need to be fixed. > >> In principle, just replacing my_popen() and my_pclose() in vms/vms.c > >>with another implementation would be

Re: pipes again (Re: Todo issues on VMS:)

2005-10-22 Thread John E. Malmberg
Craig A. Berry wrote: At 4:19 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: My guess, though I've never pinned it down and watched it happen in the debugger, is that when we see spurious newlines, it's because a flush has taken place or the buffer has filled up. There is lots and lots of flushin

pipes again (Re: Todo issues on VMS:)

2005-10-22 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 4:19 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >>>* Bash shell support. This needs lots of work. Pipes need to be fixed. >> In principle, just replacing my_popen() and my_pclose() in vms/vms.c >>with another implementation would be all that's needed. Also, >>Perl_my_waitpid() would need som

Re: Todo issues on VMS:

2005-10-22 Thread John E. Malmberg
Craig A. Berry wrote: At 1:40 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: TODO list (not in the order that I may get to them, and if someone gets to them first, I certainly do not mind :-). * VMS::Filespec::case_tolerant now reflects the true state of case tolerance expected by the person runni

Re: Todo issues on VMS:

2005-10-22 Thread Craig A. Berry
At 1:40 PM -0400 10/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >TODO list (not in the order that I may get to them, and if someone gets to >them first, I certainly do not mind :-). > >* VMS::Filespec::case_tolerant now reflects the true state of > case tolerance expected by the person running Perl. > Unfort