[Info-vax] "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Tue Sep 13 22:04:52 EDT 2016


On 9/13/16 8:47 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 7:17:40 PM UTC-4, John E. Malmberg wrote:

>> Hidden in the source code for many of the updated GNV utilities,
>> including Bash and coreutils is a wrapper for select() and poll() that
>> handles terminals, sockets, pipes, and if you prepare things right with
>> dup2() to reserve the descriptor number, X11 (implemented in VMS as
>> event flags).
>>
>> Regards,
>> -John
>> wb8tyw at qsl.net_work
>
> What's the license on that code?

 From a very quick glance at:

<https://sourceforge.net/p/gnv/coreutils/ci/default/tree/vms_source/coreutils/vms/vms_terminal_io.c>

the license looks BSD-like, but John M. holds the copyright and could
release it to you under any license that is mutually agreeable.





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