Craig A. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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?
That is fine - but if (say) you as a stream which is running a :unix:perlio layer stack for its filename it does not know, but if you ask one using :stdio it does. > >>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. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
