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'))

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