Re: patch@27082 Allow fatal exceptions to bring up VMS debugger

2006-02-12 Thread John E. Malmberg
Craig A. Berry wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 22:04, John E. Malmberg wrote: This patch allows the Perl user to set a logical name PERL_EXCEPTION_DEBUG that causes Perl to invoke the VMS debugger before having the default fatal exception handler in Perl cause a fatal exit. Thanks, applie

patch@27162 long path name support in readdir / cando_by_name

2006-02-12 Thread John E. Malmberg
in vms/vmsish.h: Change the field vms_wantversions to be a flag field to also indicate if the input file specification was UNIX format, so the read file names should be also in UNIX format. In vms/vms.c: Add static routine copy_expand_vms_filename_escape() to copy and optionally expand '^'

long path name support issues.

2006-02-12 Thread John E. Malmberg
For OpenVMS long filename support, I will need to set the macro MAXPATHLEN to the proper size of either 256 or 4096 depending on the platform and version. In order to do that through other macros, rmsdef.h would need to be included in vmsish.h instead of in vms.h and other modules. Also to