Re: maint-5.10-1196-ga8a43ff on VMS status

"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.ports.vms,gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On May 28, 2009, at 11:04 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>

>> lib/File/Compare.t has existing bugs that show up when VMS is run  
>> with the extended filename character set enabled.  I submitted a  
>> patch that diagnoses the bugs to explain why the test will not work  
>> until Perl is updated.  This was submitted to blead, so I do not  
>> have a ticket.

>> t/op/taint.t has a test that is exposing an tainting issue on VMS  
>> when run with a world writable temp directory.  I submitted a patch  
>> to skip the tests with a TODO.  This was submitted to blead so I do  
>> not have a ticket.
>
> I missed lib/File/Path.t, which has a test that is invalid on VMS,  
> but this only shows up as an issue when VMS is in the Unix  
> compatible mode.  This was submitted to blead, so I do not have a  
> ticket.


Some of these ring a bell and IIRC anything that wasn't applied was  
rejected for one reason or another.  I'll scan old mail and see if I  
can find anything good enough to go in.

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