Re: [patch]lib/savewd working on OpenVMS

2017-07-03 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/03/2017 04:45 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: Those constrains are something that I will need to find out when I get to running tests on the compiled modules. With vfork() on OpenVMS, all local automatic variables, even those with a volatile-qualified type, can have indeterminate values if t

Re: [patch]lib/savewd working on OpenVMS

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 7/3/2017 4:07 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 07/03/2017 03:30 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: OpenVMS does not have a fork() call and savewd.c is one of the few cases where the OpenVMS vfork() call can be directly substituted. This is true only if the application limits itself to a fairly restrict

Re: [patch]lib/savewd working on OpenVMS

2017-07-03 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/03/2017 03:30 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote: OpenVMS does not have a fork() call and savewd.c is one of the few cases where the OpenVMS vfork() call can be directly substituted. This is true only if the application limits itself to a fairly restrictive set of actions between the savewd_chd

[patch]lib/savewd working on OpenVMS

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
Hello, OpenVMS does not have a fork() call and savewd.c is one of the few cases where the OpenVMS vfork() call can be directly substituted. Regards, -John 0001-savewd.c-savewd-OpenVMS-uses-vfork.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data