Re: Perl hangs on OpenVMS

[LBOHAN]

 in the $sda sh proc/chan out put you gave,
 your terminal device is of the FTAn: variety.
 
 can you tell us a bit about how you're logged into this 
 system?  via a decw$term? 
 
 is the process spinning, burnning cpu cycles,
 with little or no buffered or direct i/o?
 
0080  00000000                        FTA82:
0090  00000000                        FTA82:
00A0  8142A980 DKA103:[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]LIBRTL.EXE;3 (section file)
00B0  8142AB80 DKA103:[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]LIBOTS.EXE;1 (section file)
00C0  81303100 DKA104:[PERL5_005_03]PERLSHR.EXE;1
00D0  81498740 DKA103:[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]SECURESHRP.EXE;1 (section file)
00E0  814B0B40 DKA103:[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]SECURESHR.EXE;1 (section file)
00F0  00000000                        FTA82: