Problems building perl pl 37 under Ultrix 3.1

Chet Ramey chet at cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu
Fri Oct 26 05:56:27 AEST 1990


In article <272653CD.28086 at orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias at draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>it passes all the tests.  Is something broken in Ultrix 3.1 waitpid(),
>or is perl not calling it properly?

waitpid() is broken on 3.[01] on Decstations.  It works fine on Vaxen.  It
never updates the status pointer given it.

Chet


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