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| author | Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> | 1998-02-26 03:09:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> | 1998-02-27 15:31:12 +0000 |
| commit | bf99883da2fbc1b4d546abddb96990a37466b881 (patch) | |
| tree | d909f5bce1dfc4639e5a489f66e9aaba074abc7b /vms/perlvms.pod | |
| parent | c2267164204a961273c71c9c103831895724b0b1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-bf99883da2fbc1b4d546abddb96990a37466b881.tar.gz | |
[PATCH 5.004_60] Fix to MM_VMS.PM
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:09:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 5.004_60] Get SDBM_File working on VMS
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 11:15:24 -0800
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@594
Diffstat (limited to 'vms/perlvms.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | vms/perlvms.pod | 24 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/vms/perlvms.pod b/vms/perlvms.pod index c599e5834c..4aa68008d5 100644 --- a/vms/perlvms.pod +++ b/vms/perlvms.pod @@ -329,7 +329,12 @@ undefined behavior (rarely, we hope): getgrnam, setgrent, endgrent, ioctl, link, lstat, msgctl, msgget, msgsend, msgrcv, readlink, semctl, semget, semop, setpgrp, setpriority, shmctl, shmget, - shmread, shmwrite, socketpair, symlink, syscall, truncate + shmread, shmwrite, socketpair, symlink, syscall + +The following functions are available on Perls compiled with Dec C 5.2 or +greater and running VMS 7.0 or greater + + truncate The following functions may or may not be implemented, depending on what type of socket support you've built into @@ -749,12 +754,23 @@ it's equivalent to calling fflush() and fsync() from C. =back +=head1 Standard modules with VMS-specific differences + +=head2 SDBM_File + +SDBM_File works peroperly on VMS. It has, however, one minor +difference. The database directory file created has a L<.sdbm_dir> +extension rather than a L<.dir> extension. L<.dir> files are VMS filesystem +directory files, and using them for other purposes could cause unacceptable +problems. + =head1 Revision date -This document was last updated on 28-Feb-1996, for Perl 5, -patchlevel 2. +This document was last updated on 26-Feb-1998, for Perl 5, +patchlevel 5. =head1 AUTHOR -Charles Bailey bailey@genetics.upenn.edu +Charles Bailey bailey@cor.newman.upenn.edu +Last revision by Dan Sugalski sugalskd@ous.edu |