This feels like quite a silly question, but does Perl on OpenVMS support
fork?
I'm trying to port a set of perl test harness's from NT/Unix to OpenVMS and
most things seem to be ok , file io, system but not fork?
It seems to me , that I have missed something very basic in the
documentation.
I've tried this with the perl 5.05.3 from Compaq and I also have a 5.6.1
which I built from the perl.org release version and they both tell me that
The Unsupported function fork function is unimplemented at t2.pl line 9.
Sample code
fork();
Error->The Unsupported function fork function is unimplemented at t2.pl
line 9.
$ perl "-V"
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=VMS, osvers=V7.2-1, archname=VMS_AXP
uname='VMS YourHost V7.2'
hint=none, useposix=false, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
Compiler:
cc='CC/DECC', optimize='undef', gccversion=undef
cppflags='undef'
ccflags ='/Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj
=.obj/List/Machine'
stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=true
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=N, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='Link', ldflags ='/NoTrace/Map/Full/Cross'
libpth=/sys$share /sys$library
libs=
libc=(DECCRTL), so=exe, useshrplib=undef, libperl=undef
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_vms.c, dlext=exe, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=''
cccdlflags='', lddlflags='/Share'
Characteristics of this PERLSHR image:
Compile-time options: DEBUGGING
Built under VMS
Compiled at Sep 29 2000 09:53:40
%ENV:
PERLSHR="PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERLSHR.EXE"
PERL_ROOT="DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.PERL5_005_03.]"
@INC:
perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_00503]
perl_root:[lib]
perl_root:[lib.site_perl.VMS_AXP]
perl_root:[lib.site_perl]
.
Regards
Tony O'Callaghan
Software Consultant
Storm Technology Ltd.
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