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authorIlya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu>1998-10-04 22:37:43 -0400
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-10-06 04:01:55 +0000
commit017f25f12cde7f2349c4feace654ff43ec0681aa (patch)
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parent2eecd61590cdae0bfd61080e79b0196640ecd60a (diff)
downloadperl-017f25f12cde7f2349c4feace654ff43ec0681aa.tar.gz
Cumulative OS/2-related patch
Message-Id: <199810050637.CAA07781@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1930
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@@ -198,3 +198,17 @@ after 5.004_73:
metachars, or if magic-line asks for sh, or there is no magic
line and EXECSHELL is set to sh.
Shell is supplied the original command line if possible.
+
+after 5.005_02:
+ Can start PM programs from non-PM sessions by plain system()
+ and friends. Can start DOS/Win programs. Can start
+ fullscreen programs from non-fullscreen sessions too.
+ In fact system(P_PM,...) was broken.
+ We mangle the name of perl*.DLL, to allow coexistence of different
+ versions of Perl executables on the system. Mangling of
+ names of extension DLL is also changed, thus running two
+ different versions of the executable with loaded
+ extensions should not lead to conflicts (since
+ extension-full-name and Perl-version mangling work in the
+ same set ot 576 possible keys, this may lead to clashes).
+ $^E was reset on the second read, and contained ".\r\n" at the end.