On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Charles Lane wrote:
> > At 11:17 AM 9/5/2000 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> > >So now that the deadline pressure is off, would anyone object to making
> > >vmspipe a little more optional rather than a required part of the build?
> ...
> > It seems to me worth noting that the extra lines in the test output, though
> > they certainly look bad, don't appear to cause the tests to fail. Could
> > there not just be something quirky about a subprocess talking to another
> > subprocess talking to a parent process whose output is a terminal device and
> > whose messaging is turned off? I still think we shoudl fix it if we can
> > nail down what's causing it, but I'm not convinced that you're better off
> > without the piping mods just because the test output looks flaky.
>
> To add some more data: on a system that has the extra LF's:
> $ MMS TEST
> will produce the LF's (same ones that Peter sees).
>
> But:
> $ @[.vms]test ".exe" 1
> doesn't have extra LF's. Both were run as batch jobs so SYS$ERROR
> output would go to the log file.
>
> To compare results so far:
> Who system compiler make result
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Prymmer ? ? ? LF's
make that line read:
Prymmer VMS/AXP 7.1 DECC V6.0-001 MMS V3.3-4 LF's
> Lane VMS/AXP 6.2-1H3 DECC V5.5-002 MMK 3.8-1 ok
> Lane VMS/AXP 7.1 DECC V5.7-004 MMS 3.0-05 LF's
> Berry VMS/AXP 7.1 DECC V5.2 ? ok
>
> Please feel free to fill in data for the ?'s.
>
> Right now, it's looking like the extra LF's might be a MMK/MMS thing
> (i.e., subprocess termination writes an EOF to its SYS$ERROR, MMS
> picks gets the EOF in a MBX and writes as an empty record while MMK just
> ignores the EOF?)
Hmm... interesting.
I have been working on adding 'ok','okfile','nok' and 'nokfile' targets
to descrip_mms.template. Unfortunately I find it somewhat difficult to
deal with an interactive script under the stated MMS /ident. I have
yet to try playing with a DEFINE/USER SYS$COMMAND thing yet though
(unfortunately my DECset docs have gone missing).
> More tests underway...
I may have an opportunity to try mmk at some point.
Peter Prymmer
