Some weeks later, I have posted a bug report about problem with waitpid and wait. The response from Craig A. Berry was to use 5.6.0 with patches(VMSPIPE,VMSSOCK and VMSMISC). With this version, waitpid runs properly but I have yet some troubles with wait. 1) wait without child process ends with error $perl -e "$x=wait" Fatal VMS error (status=2472) at DISK$USR:[PTPC.PERL-5_6_0]VMS.C;3, line 2196 at -e line 1. %SYSTEM-W-NOMOREPROC, no more processes 2) The termination of a child process is not detected: the wait system call ends, with the same error than in 1, only when all child processes are ended. Is there other patch that can correct this problem or using 5.7.0 is a solution ? Pierre Coucoureux IBM, Paris Laboratory Application & Integration Middleware Division 69, rue de la Vecquerie - 44600 Saint-Nazaire Phone : +33 (0)2-51-16-4053 Fax : -4001 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
