At 9:51 AM +0100 5/23/02, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:

>It would be good to get VMS working with :perlio as well.
>However if the test suite has tests which test VMS's stdio extensions
>they will not work right with :perlio.

Even though VMS::Stdio talks to the outside world via PerlIO objects rather than 
FILE's?

>IIRC from way back VMS occasionaly needs to get a file name for
>an open handle - its stdio does that but currently PerlIO does not
>save that information itself.

PerlIO_getname() is implemented for VMS.  Is there some other piece we're missing?

>So there maybe things that will not
>work with :perlio - but it would be good to figure out what those are
>with a view to fixing them in 5.9*

agreed.

>Can someone re-try with bleadperl with the ungetc() fixes?
>I don't think they should affect anything.

Will do. 
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