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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-01-04 07:59:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-01-04 07:59:44 +0000 |
| commit | 2d7a92375815264badaef23c612657cbd4799f31 (patch) | |
| tree | a21bf70b8eb3f8982a62d2acf344771f2d96e952 /README.win32 | |
| parent | 25931d335858f0e7767af03260b9bb9ad7a959d5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2d7a92375815264badaef23c612657cbd4799f31.tar.gz | |
[win32] Various win32 fixes
- support spawn via system(&P_NOWAIT,...) like OS2
- support wait() and waitpid()
- s/GetCurrentDirectory/GetCwd/, long-named XS to be removed
- support -lfoo properly in ExtUtils::Liblist
- fix outdated info about Win32 support in perlfaq2
- fix win32 bug in perldoc that causes spurious warnings
- regularize global function/variable names yet more
- fix bug in do_aspawn() (it was always invoking shell, instead of
almost never)
- implement and export win32_wait()
- stub version of USE_RTL_THREAD_API
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@391
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 1b596eb1b6..fb42850597 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -503,9 +503,9 @@ The following functions are currently unavailable: C<fork()>, C<dump()>, C<chown()>, C<link()>, C<symlink()>, C<chroot()>, C<setpgrp()> and related security functions, C<setpriority()>, C<getpriority()>, C<syscall()>, C<fcntl()>, C<getpw*()>, -C<wait*()>, C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<alarm()>, -C<socketpair()>, C<*netent()>, C<*protoent()>, C<*servent()>, -C<*hostent()>, C<getnetby*()>. +C<msg*()>, C<shm*()>, C<sem*()>, C<alarm()>, C<socketpair()>, +C<*netent()>, C<*protoent()>, C<*servent()>, C<*hostent()>, +C<getnetby*()>. This list is possibly incomplete. =item * @@ -524,9 +524,9 @@ functionality of ioctlsocket() in the Winsock API). =item * -C<$?> is set in a way compatible with Unix, so the exitstatus of the -subprocess is actually obtained by "$? >> 8". Failure to spawn() the -subprocess is indicated by setting $? to "255 << 8". +Failure to spawn() a subprocess is indicated by setting $? to "255 << 8". +C<$?> is set in a way compatible with Unix (i.e. the exitstatus of the +subprocess is obtained by "$? >> 8", as described in the documentation). =item * @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ sundry hacks since then. Borland support was added in 5.004_01 (Gurusamy Sarathy). -Last updated: 23 December 1997 +Last updated: 3 January 1998 =cut |