On 9/18/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:
They all seem sensible to me. (Although I don't understand the 2nd
very well, but I trust the experts:)
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Personal Opinion Only
>
