Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-07 Thread Bruno Haible
On Montag, 3. Juli 2017 20:38:45 CEST John E. Malmberg wrote: > On 7/3/2017 7:58 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > John E. Malmberg wrote: > >> The OpenVMS Mailboxes work for data up to about 65K and then have buffer > >> full problems. > >> ... > >> For Bash and Coreutils, I have a close to a pipe repla

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 7/3/2017 7:26 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: John E. Malmberg wrote: For Bash and Coreutils, I have a close to a pipe replacement that uses a slightly different API in that you have to know if the pipe is parent to child or child to parent when you create the pipes. This handles pipes up to the amo

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 7/3/2017 7:58 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: John E. Malmberg wrote: The OpenVMS Mailboxes work for data up to about 65K and then have buffer full problems. ... For Bash and Coreutils, I have a close to a pipe replacement that uses a slightly different API in that you have to know if the pipe is par

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread Bruno Haible
John E. Malmberg wrote: > The OpenVMS Mailboxes work for data up to about 65K and then have buffer > full problems. > ... > For Bash and Coreutils, I have a close to a pipe replacement that uses a > slightly different API in that you have to know if the pipe is parent to > child or child to pare

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread Bruno Haible
John E. Malmberg wrote: > For Bash and Coreutils, I have a close to a pipe replacement that uses a > slightly different API in that you have to know if the pipe is parent to > child or child to parent when you create the pipes. This handles pipes > up to the amount of virtual memory available t

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 7/3/2017 6:30 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi John, This Patch gets the spawn-pipe.c and spawni.c modules to compile on OpenVMS. When I get to the state of testing these, I may need to make some more changes. On this one as well, I'd like to ask you to come back when you have worked out the is

Re: [patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi John, > This Patch gets the spawn-pipe.c and spawni.c modules to compile on OpenVMS. > > When I get to the state of testing these, I may need to make some more > changes. On this one as well, I'd like to ask you to come back when you have worked out the issues and done the testing. > It sho

[patch]spawn-pipe.c / spawni.c compile on OpenVMS.

2017-07-03 Thread John E. Malmberg
Hello, This Patch gets the spawn-pipe.c and spawni.c modules to compile on OpenVMS. When I get to the state of testing these, I may need to make some more changes. It should be possible to implement the spawni() routine on OpenVMS at a future time. The OpenVMS pipe() implementation is not