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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-16 12:48:18 +0000, Richard Levitte said:

> Den fredag 16 september 2016 kl. 13:41:25 UTC+2 skrev Neil Rieck:
>> My advice you you is to get your working code into the OpenSSL distro 
>> so that others (including HP/HPE/VSI) aren't required to engage in a 
>> coding ritual every time a new version of OpenSSL is published.
> 
> Done, actually.  The changes finally got merged into the 1.1.0 and 
> 1.0.2 branches, so whenever 1.1.0a and 1.0.2i are released, mainstream 
> OpenSSL will finally be free of this particular issue.

"OpenSSL will finally be free of this particular issue" when OpenVMS 
has a functional select() call.

When the hack-around you've just added into OpenSSL can be excised.

It's these incompatibilities and the associated #ifdef __vms morasses 
that have helped establish the reputation of OpenVMS in the computing 
community.

It's these misfeatures that deservedly and sometimes even gleefully get 
any latent OpenVMS support and its associated complexity ripped out of 
open source projects, too.




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