From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" <st...@openssl.org> > > > http://antinode.info/ftp/openssl/1_0_0/test/ > > > > Now contains some new and updated files to add a helper program for > > the perl system() function on VMS systems. > > Is there any way to redirect standard output and error to different files > under VMS+perl without an additional helper? The redirection isn't essential > to the cms-test.pl utility, it's there just to keep the utility quiet and to > keep any potentially useful output if the tests fail.
It's hardly an impossibility proof, but I didn't see one. My perl expertise is negligible, but I found nothing useful in a brief Web search. As I said, the problem srises from using UNIX-shell-like output redirection in a system() function's command, which depends on the ability of the underlying OS to cope with that, and DCL can't do it. (On VAX or older non-VAX systems, it can't even preserve the case of a command in there. DCL has many shortcomings, some of which are likely to remain until its death, especially on VAX, where VMS is essentially frozen. Of course, case-sensitive command options is not one of them, but there are plenty of others.) > A possible alternative would be to include some command line options to the > cms utility (or the OpenSSL utility in general) for redirection. Ok with me. In the mean time, at least on recent non-VAX systems, that helper program does seem to do the job with the existing system() usage in "cms-test.pl". (When someone sticks a pipeline or something in there, all bets will be off again.) I'm wide open to a good solution, if anyone can supply one. (If I have a blinding flash of insight, I'll be sure to post it, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda s...@antinode-info 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
