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From: chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: Problems building perl pl 37 under Ultrix 3.1
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Date: 25 Oct 90 19:56:27 GMT
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In article <272653CD.28086@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@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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