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Craig A. Berry wrote:
There has for some time been latent support in the Perl sources to make unlink() delete all versions of a file on versioning file systems when Perl has been configured to do so. It is rather odd given the fact that we say we have this capability in perlvms.pod -- and even odder given the fact that VMS is quite likely the only supported platform that could make use of the feature -- that the configure-time work to support this has never been done. The attached patch corrects this deficiency.
I still feel that this should be a run-time option rather than a compile time option. Otherwise someone may need to keep two copies of Perl around.
Thanks to John Malmberg for noticing this was missing and submitting a patch to vmsperl. Mine looks a lot like his but doesn't change the C sources since the support that was already there works fine; we just needed configure.com to do its part.
I would have to look to see why I changed the C sources, I was working from Collin Blake's patches for an earlier perl release. The only other possibility is that it was for better handling of UNIX filenames, but even that does not sound right.
-John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Opinion Only
