On 14/08/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tests 7 and 8 for this script are failing on VMS. > > Test 7 is failing because normally on VMS, unless you specify otherwise, > you get exclusive access to the file, so the second open is failing. > > The logical name DECC$FILE_SHARING defined as "ENABLE" will change VMS > behavior to that of UNIX which will allow test 7 to pass. > > I can probably come up with some code to have the script on VMS make > sure that that value is set and to clear it on exit.
Would it not be better to fix the VMS Perl open() call so it works the same as on other OSes? S.
