John E. Malmberg wrote: > > So if you apply the patch, modify it to not change the last section, and > the old dev/null hack will be compiled in.
As the patch was applied, I re-applied this : Change 27554 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2006/03/20 13:03:07 Revert part of change 27546 related to a /dev/null bug workaround on VMS, as requested by John E. Malmberg Affected files ... ... //depot/perl/vms/vms.c#168 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/perl/vms/vms.c#168 (text) ==== @@ -11524,7 +11524,7 @@ } /* PCP mode requires creating /dev/null special device file */ - decc_bug_devnull = 0; + decc_bug_devnull = 1; status = sys_trnlnm("DECC_BUG_DEVNULL", val_str, sizeof(val_str)); if ($VMS_STATUS_SUCCESS(status)) { if ((val_str[0] == 'E') || (val_str[0] == '1') || (val_str[0] == 'T'))