Re: [blead-259-gca03d8e] VMS thread context fixes

John Malmberg wrote:
> 1. Change many(most) of the ckvmssts macro calls to ckvmsts_noperl as 
> these routines can be called with a null context, and that causes 
> ckvmssts to access violate instead of terminating Perl with the real 
> failure.
> 
> 2. Fix pipe_exit_routine.  This routine will be called with a null 
> context from the exit handler.  It needs to extract the thread context 
> from the specific pipe info structure getting run down.
> 
> 3. Safe_popen can open a pipe with out using a file descriptor in the 
> case where it waits for the subprocess to complete.
> 
> In this case, my_pclose() routine is never called.
> 
> This needs a special shortened version of pclose() to be called to do 
> the cleanup.

This patch also fixes a memory leak in trim_unixpath().

-John
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