RE: RMS$_DNF in cando_by_name()

[ejohnson]

I'm all for going to DEC C v6.x.  I'm biased, because we've had it for a
bit.  But
to be honest, you guys are doing this for free, and if it makes your life
easier,
screw the kids who don't want to join the 21st century.  If they want a
modern
perl, they need to get a modern C compiler and a modern version of VMS.

Opinionatedly,

-Eric



                                                                                       
                            
                    Dan Sugalski                                                       
                            
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At 11:13 AM 3/15/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>No not necessarily a VMS bug.  Rather it is a bug in vms perl's use of the
>device name returned by the name returned by lib$fid_to_name, instead of
>the device name returned by stat.  We ought to work around it.

I think that's a legacy of stat being lame (or nonexistant) in older
versions of Dec C and Vax C.

Do we want to think about upping our minimum required compiler version at
some point? We've already tossed Vax C, and I'm tempted to requre Dec C 5.2

or higher. (Well, tempted for 6.0 or higher, but there are limits... :)

                                                    Dan

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