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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-10-24 19:10:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-10-24 19:10:33 +0000 |
| commit | 5b8c1387d8b2fe34154451bb2cea5895305c0541 (patch) | |
| tree | 680d845faf19276a6a289bdc66c419ef12e0f60d /pod/perlport.pod | |
| parent | a7ffa9b9a1a8caeff31a83d25b70b5aca6ba0d12 (diff) | |
| download | perl-5b8c1387d8b2fe34154451bb2cea5895305c0541.tar.gz | |
Stratus VOS updates from Paul Green.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7428
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlport.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 0c3554686d..0ee67211ad 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -908,12 +908,11 @@ contain a slash character cannot be processed. Such files must be renamed before they can be processed by Perl. Note that VOS limits file names to 32 or fewer characters. -The following C functions are unimplemented on VOS, and any attempt by -Perl to use them will result in a fatal error message and an immediate -exit from Perl: dup, do_aspawn, do_spawn, fork, waitpid. Once these -functions become available in the VOS POSIX.1 implementation, you can -either recompile and rebind Perl, or you can download a newer port from -ftp.stratus.com. +See F<README.vos> for restrictions that apply when Perl is built +with the alpha version of VOS POSIX.1 support. + +Perl on VOS is built without any extensions and does not support +dynamic loading. The value of C<$^O> on VOS is "VOS". To determine the architecture that you are running on without resorting to loading all of C<%Config> you |