Hello!
> The VMS port is actively and capably maintained by Hartmut Becker. The
> ChangeLog shows he provided VMS fixes for 4.0 as recently as September.
Ah, i see. Thanks for pointing at.
> It's easier if patches are targeted for specific results, so it's best
> not to include major refactorings, like removing ports, in the same
> patch.
I know, this is what i'm going to do. Actually, i want to fix output-sync for
spawn()-based flavor. This includes EMX, DOS and potentially Cygwin. Currently
output-sync option will not work in that ports, because the related fragment:
--- cut ---
/* Divert child output if output_sync in use. */
if (child->output.syncout)
{
if (child->output.out >= 0)
outfd = child->output.out;
if (child->output.err >= 0)
errfd = child->output.err;
}
--- cut ---
is for some reason under #else branch only (where fork() is used). I think
that the best way to fix this is to move this fragment out of #ifdef's. But
above there's one more #ifdef VMS fragment, which also seems to ignore
child->output settings. I see that VMS version of 'child_execute_job' gets the
complete 'child' structure, i have checked it but it seems to ignore these new
members.
So i've got one more question - may be this fragment should become completely
generic ? Just with some note that VMS code should also implement handling for
it.
Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
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