On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:50 PM, John E. Malmberg <wb8...@qsl.net> wrote:
> If you define PERL_VMS_POSIX_EXIT or DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT, it is > supposed to behave the way that you would normally expect. That depends on what you normally expect. PERL_VMS_POSIX_EXIT should more or less give you posixish behavior regarding exit codes. I can't think of a good reason to enable it unless you are running under bash. DECC$FILENAME_UNIX_REPORT has nothing at all to do with exit statuses. > From a quick test on Encompasserve with PERL 5.18, that feature does not > appear to be working. > > When that feature is working from DCL scripts or Bash you can recover the > original Unix error code unless it is a VMS specific error. > > I do not know why the PERL_VMS_POSIX_EXIT feature does not appear to be > working, I have not built/tested perl on VMS for a few years. Well it certainly does something: $ define PERL_VMS_POSIX_EXIT 1 $ perl -e "$! = 66; die;" Died at -e line 1. $ show symbol $status $STATUS == "%X1035A212" 66 is ENOTEMPTY. 66 might be embedded in that $STATUS value somewhere, transmogrified by various kinds of masking and shifting, but I'm late for dinner and have no time to debug it at the moment. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
