I'm only commenting on the name of the variable you have chosen here, not the patch itself. I wonder, if it is such a VMS specific operation, whether the name of the OS would not be better to be included somehow, something like:
PERL_EXCEPTION_VMS_DEBUG Just a thought? -- Ciao Richard Foley On Saturday 04 February 2006 22:04, John E. Malmberg wrote: > This patch allows the Perl user to set a logical name > PERL_EXCEPTION_DEBUG that causes Perl to invoke the VMS debugger before > having the default fatal exception handler in Perl cause a fatal exit. > > The two files when renamed to being .com and .ini allow a test to be > done with that feature. I am not sure how to integrate these into the > vmsish.t test environment. > > This feature was needed to debug a problem where an access violation was > being signaled when a Perl test script was run normally, but not when > the failing Perl was run starting in debug. > > -John > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Personal Opinion Only