At 2:41 PM -0600 2/2/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: >I notice that Perl is checking if the stat is being done on the NULL >device, and generating a fake stat structure. > >Is there a specific version of stat() on OpenVMS that does not return >the correct data for stat?
Almost certainly yes, though I don't know what version. >stat() should return the correct information from either a filespec of >"NLA0:" or "NL:" or even "/dev/null" Sure, on recent versions of VMS. I'd be reluctant to break older versions, at least without knowing exactly which ones I was breaking so I could document it. If you go to the Perl repository browser here: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse and enter "vms/vms.c" in the box next to "Display blamelog for a file" and then click the "Submit" button, you'll see a listing of the code with links to the patches that introduced each line. The lines containing the code in question have a "1" next to them, indicating they were already there when the repository was created in 1997. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
