I am looking for comments on a couple of VMS specific behavior issues.
Unless there are some objections, I would like to make these changes:
1. Fix usage of HOME and a few other environment variables used inside
of the Perl binary.
Perl is assuming that the HOME and possibly some other environment
variables are always in UNIX format early in the startup of the
interpreter. When the CRTL is in UNIX mode, then this works, in the
CRTL default mode the resulting file is an illegal filename from the
combination of a VMS device and directory concatenated to a UNIX path or
file. This is apparently stored and then used every time that Perl
needs to look up certain types of files.
I would like to make the change so that in the startup, environment
variables like "HOME" that Perl expects to be in UNIX format are in UNIX
format as I find them. These tend to get exposed while I am debugging
other issue.
2. If the VMS process parse style is set to extended, then Perl will
default to having the C features for EFS character sets and case
preserved behavior enabled, once those modes are working.
3. If a way can be found to detect that Perl is running under the GNV
bash shell in the LIB$INITIALIZE section, which means %ENV{SHELL} =
"bash", for Perl to default for the CRTL running UNIX filename report
mode. And eventually assume that the GNV bash shell will be handling
spawned commands.
-John
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