Re: VMS port

[hb]

On 11/25/2013 01:44 PM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  I know, this is what i'm going to do. Actually, i want to fix output-sync 
> for spawn()-based flavor. This includes EMX, DOS and potentially Cygwin. 
> Currently output-sync option will not work in that ports, because the related 
> fragment:
> --- cut ---
>           /* Divert child output if output_sync in use.  */
>           if (child->output.syncout)
>             {
>               if (child->output.out >= 0)
>                 outfd = child->output.out;
>               if (child->output.err >= 0)
>                 errfd = child->output.err;
>             }
> --- cut ---
>  is for some reason under #else branch only (where fork() is used). I think 
> that the best way to fix this is to move this fragment out of #ifdef's. But 
> above there's one more #ifdef VMS fragment, which also seems to ignore 
> child->output settings. I see that VMS version of 'child_execute_job' gets 
> the complete 'child' structure, i have checked it but it seems to ignore 
> these new members.
>  So i've got one more question - may be this fragment should become 
> completely generic ? Just with some note that VMS code should also implement 
> handling for it.

The VMS port does not support parallel execution of recipes. So the
output-sync (although accepted) is ignored.