>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?
What I'm trying to do is port a process control module, which creates a
process , then asks it to run a specific command ( normally a java class),
captures it output and error.
The unix flavour uses Open3 which does not work on OpenVMS.
Overall I need to allow the process to run in the background and have some
knowledge if itstill exists. The current package has the following entry
points.
new - creates struct
run - sets up input, output, error channels to file , creates proc , runs
executable, stores pid
poll - is pid this there
stop - wrapper for kill
wait_for - wait for pid to exit
destroy - destructer of self
One of my big problems is my inability to understand the VMS documentation,
as it seems to say that fork, exec are supported.
So any suggestions on a approach would be appreciated. I should point out
that my VMS kownledge is good, but my perl is very suspect.
Regards
Tony O'Callaghan
Software Consultant
Storm Technology Ltd.
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