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after 5.003_05:
PERLLIB_PREFIX was not active if it matches an element of @INC
as a whole.
Do not need PERL_SBRK if crtdll-revision is >= 50.
Use -Zsmall-conv if crtdll-revision is >= 50 (in static perl!).
:7: warning: #warning <dirent.h> requires <sys/types.h>
We compile miniperl static. It cannot fork, thus there may be
problems with pipes (since HAS_FORK is in
place). Pipes are required by makemaker.
We compile perl___.exe A.OUT and dynamic. It should be able to
fork.
If we can fork, we my_popen by popen unless "-|". Thus we
write a cooky "-1" into the pid array to indicate
this.
Apparently we can fork, and we can load dynamic extensions
now, though probably not simultaneously.
*DB tests corrected for OS/2 one-user stat[2].
/bin/sh is intercepted and replaced by SH_PATH.
Note that having '\\' in the command line of one-arg `system'
would trigger call via shell.
Segfault with system {'ls'} 'blah'; corrected.
Documentation of OS/2-different features added to main PODs.
New buitins in Cwd::
Cwd::current_drive
Cwd::sys_chdir - leaves drive as it is.
Cwd::change_drive
Cwd::sys_is_absolute - has drive letter and is_rooted
Cwd::sys_is_rooted - has leading [/\\] (maybe
after a drive)
Cwd::sys_is_relative - changes with current dir
Cwd::sys_cwd - Interface to cwd from EMX.
Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)
- Really really odious
function. Returns absolute
name of file which would
have 'name' if CWD were 'dir'.
Dir defaults to the current dir.
Cwd::extLibpath [type] - Get/set current value of extended
Cwd::extLibpath_set - library search path.
path [type]
The optional last argument redirects
to END-path if true,
default is to search BEGIN-path.
(Note that some of these may be moved to different
libraries - eventually).
Executables:
perl - can fork, can dynalink (but not simultaneously)
perl_ - can fork, cannot dynalink
perl__ - same as perl___, but PM.
perl___ - cannot fork, can dynalink.
The build of the first one - perl - is rather convoluted, and
requires a build of miniperl_.
after 5.003_05:
PERLLIB_PREFIX was not active if it matches an element of @INC
as a whole.
Do not need PERL_SBRK if crtdll-revision is >= 50.
Use -Zsmall-conv if crtdll-revision is >= 50 (in static perl!).
:7: warning: #warning <dirent.h> requires <sys/types.h>
We compile miniperl static. It cannot fork, thus there may be
problems with pipes (since HAS_FORK is in
place). Pipes are required by makemaker.
We compile perl___.exe A.OUT and dynamic. It should be able to
fork.
If we can fork, we my_popen by popen unless "-|". Thus we
write a cooky "-1" into the pid array to indicate
this.
Apparently we can fork, and we can load dynamic extensions
now, though probably not simultaneously.
*DB tests corrected for OS/2 one-user stat[2].
/bin/sh is intercepted and replaced by SH_PATH.
Note that having '\\' in the command line of one-arg `system'
would trigger call via shell.
Segfault with system {'ls'} 'blah'; corrected.
Documentation of OS/2-different features added to main PODs.
New buitins in Cwd::
Cwd::current_drive
Cwd::sys_chdir - leaves drive as it is.
Cwd::change_drive
Cwd::sys_is_absolute - has drive letter and is_rooted
Cwd::sys_is_rooted - has leading [/\\] (maybe
after a drive)
Cwd::sys_is_relative - changes with current dir
Cwd::sys_cwd - Interface to cwd from EMX.
Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)
- Really really odious
function. Returns absolute
name of file which would
have 'name' if CWD were 'dir'.
Dir defaults to the current dir.
Cwd::extLibpath [type] - Get/set current value of extended
Cwd::extLibpath_set - library search path.
path [type]
The optional last argument redirects
to END-path if true,
default is to search BEGIN-path.
(Note that some of these may be moved to different
libraries - eventually).
Executables:
perl - can fork, can dynalink (but not simultaneously)
perl_ - can fork, cannot dynalink
perl__ - same as perl___, but PM.
perl___ - cannot fork, can dynalink.
The build of the first one - perl - is rather convoluted, and
requires a build of miniperl_.
after 5.003_07:
custom tmpfile and tmpname which may use $TMP, $TEMP.
all the calls to OS/2 API wrapped so that it is safe to use
them under DOS (may die(), though).
Tested that popen works under DOS with modified PDKSH and RSX.
File::Copy works under DOS.
MakeMaker modified to work under DOS (perlmain.c.tmp and sh -c true).
after 5.003_08:
OS2::PrfDB exports symbols as documented;
should work on OS/2 2.1 again.
uses reliable signals when spawing.
do not use popen() any more - no intermediate shell unless needed.
after 5.003_11:
Functions emx_{malloc,realloc,calloc,free} are exported from DLL.
get_sysinfo() bugs corrected (flags were not used and wrongly defined).
after 5.003_20:
_isterm is substituted instead of isatty, s?random instead of srand.
`register' disabled if -DDEBUGGING and not AOUT build: stupid SD386.
3-argument select() was stomping over memory.
after 5.003_21:
Can start scripts by executing 'dir/script' and
'script.sh'. Form without extension will call shell only if
the specified file exists (will not look on path) (to prohibit
trying to run shell commands directly). - Needed by magic.t.
after 5.003_27:
ALTERNATE_SHEBANG="extproc " supported, thus options on this
line are processed (possibly twice). -S is made legal on such
a line. This -S -x is not needed any more.
perl.dll may be used from non-EMX programs (via PERL_SYS_INIT
- the caller should have valid variable "env" with
environment). Known problems: $$ does not work - is 0, waitpid
returns immediately, thus Perl cannot wait for completion of
started programs.
after 5.004_01:
flock emulation added (disable by setting env PERL_USE_FLOCK=0),
thanks to Rocco Caputo;
RSX bug with missing waitpid circomvented;
-S bug with full path with \ corrected.
before 5.004_02:
-S switch to perl enables a search with additional extensions
.cmd, .btm, .bat, .pl as well. This means that if you have
mycmd.pl or mycmd.bat on PATH,
perl -S mycmd
will work. Perl will also look in the current directory first.
Moreover, a bug with \; in PATH being non-separator is fixed.
after 5.004_03:
$^E tracks calls to CRT now. (May break if Perl masks some
changes to errno?)
$0 may be edited to longer lengths (at least under OS/2).
OS2::REXX->loads looks in the OS/2-ish fashion too.
after 5.004_04:
Default perl.exe was built with a shorter stack than expected.
Strip extensions DLLs too (unless debugging build).
./os2.c being RO could stop cp.
When starting scripts, Perl will find them on path (using the same
extensions as for -S command-line switch). If it finds magic
`extproc ' or `#!' cookies, it will start the scripts directly.
May use `cmd /c more <' as a pager.
If a program could not be started, this might have been hidden.
End of pipe was closed twice when `open'ing a pipeline.
after 5.004_53:
Minimal thread support added. One needs to manually move pthread.h
after 5.004_64:
Make DLL names different if thread-enabled.
Emit more informative internal DLL descriptions.
5.004_72:
Updated OS2::Process (v0.2) included.
after 5.004_73:
Fixed a bug with argv not NULL-terminated when starting scripts.
Support all the forms of starting scripts.
Support killing a child when receiving a signal during system()
(in two stage, on first send the same signal, on the next
send SIGKILL).
Add the same logic for scripts as in pdksh, including
stripping the path from #! line if needed,
calling EXECSHELL or COMSPEC for magic-less scripts;
Now pdksh is called only if one-arg system()/friends contains
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.
after 5.005_53:
Would segfault system()ing non-existing program;
AOUT build was hosed;
warning-test for getpriority() might lock the system hard on
pre-fixpak22 configuration (calling getpriority() on
non-existing process triggers a system-wide bug).
Variable $OS2::emx_rev implemented (string and numberic values
are the same as C variables _emx_rev and _emx_vprt).
Variable $OS2::emx_env implemented (same as C variable _emx_env).
Variable $OS2::os_ver implemented (_osmajor + 0.001 * _osminor).
Improved centralized management of HAB and HMQ. To get Perl's
HAB, call perl_hab_GET(). (After the initial call one
can use Perl_hab instead.) To require Perl's HMQ,
call perl_hmq_GET(), to release it call perl_hmq_UNSET(),
to obtain it between these calls use Perl_hmq.
HMQ management is refcounted, and the program will morph
itself into/from PM if required.
If perl.h cannot be included, hab may be obtained by Perl_hab_GET().
New function OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception). Returns
undef if it was not called yet, otherwise bit 1 is
set if on previous call do_harderror was enabled, bit
2 is set if if on previous call do_exception was enabled.
This function enables/disables error popups associated with
hardware errors (Disk not ready etc.) and software exceptions.
New function OS2::Errors2Drive(drive). Returns undef if it was
not called yet, otherwise return false if Errors were
not requested to be written to a hard drive, or the
drive letter if this was requested.
This function may redirect error popups associated with
hardware errors (Disk not ready etc.) and software exceptions
to the file POPUPLOG.OS2 at the root directory of the
specified drive. Overrides OS2::Error() specified by
individual programs. Given argument undef will
disable redirection. Has global effect, persists
after the application exits.
New function OS2::SysInfo(). Returns a hash with system information.
The keys of the hash are
MAX_PATH_LENGTH, MAX_TEXT_SESSIONS, MAX_PM_SESSIONS,
MAX_VDM_SESSIONS, BOOT_DRIVE, DYN_PRI_VARIATION,
MAX_WAIT, MIN_SLICE, MAX_SLICE, PAGE_SIZE,
VERSION_MAJOR, VERSION_MINOR, VERSION_REVISION,
MS_COUNT, TIME_LOW, TIME_HIGH, TOTPHYSMEM, TOTRESMEM,
TOTAVAILMEM, MAXPRMEM, MAXSHMEM, TIMER_INTERVAL,
MAX_COMP_LENGTH, FOREGROUND_FS_SESSION,
FOREGROUND_PROCESS
New function OS2::BootDrive(force). Returns a letter without colon.
New functions OS2::MorphPM(serve)/OS2::UnMorphPM(serve). Transforms
the current application into a PM application and back.
The argument true means that a real message loop is
going to be performed.
OS2::MorphPM() returns the PM message queue handle as an integer.
New function OS2::Serve_Messages(force). Fake on-demand
retrieval of outstanding PM messages. If force is false,
will not dispatch messages if a real message loop is known to
be present. Returns number of messages retrieved.
Dies with "QUITing..." if WM_QUIT message is obtained.
New function OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt]). Retrieval
of PM messages until window creation/destruction.
If force is false, will not dispatch messages
if a real message loop is known to be present.
Returns change in number of windows. If cnt is given,
it is incremented by the number of messages retrieved.
Dies with "QUITing..." if WM_QUIT message is obtained.
after 5.005_54:
Opening pipes from/to processes could fail if (un)appropriate
combination of STDIN/STDOUT was closed.
If the only shell-metachars of a command are ' 2>&1' at the
end of a command, it is executed without calling the external shell.
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