Re: maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-07 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote: On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 5:58 PM, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We need to have a method of killing the Perl process with out killing the shell on VMS. What I ended up doing is making it send a SIGTERM rather than SIGKILL

Re: maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-06 Thread Craig A. Berry
On Sep 6, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Fred Morris wrote: 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$FORCE

Re: maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-06 Thread Fred Morris
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

Re: maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-06 Thread Hein van den Heuvel
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 <[

Re: maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-06 Thread John E. Malmberg
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/f

maint-5.8@34289 on VMS

2008-09-06 Thread Craig A. Berry
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.