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

[Richard Levitte]

Den lördag 17 september 2016 kl. 14:07:32 UTC+2 skrev Richard Levitte:
> Den fredag 16 september 2016 kl. 15:02:39 UTC+2 skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> > 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.
> 
> I agree with you there, partly...  VMS is not Unix, and when someone tries to have Unix as the holy standard, things are sure to get confusing.
> 
> That being said, the socket-only select() is lame.

Also, there's nothing stopping anyone from creating a vmslib which gives a compatibility / porting layer.  I recall starting on something like that longago, and I can see myself putting something like that together.  Having a fd friendly select() would be one item which I bet would be popular, for example.

Of course, we can keep lamenting all the things that are lacking in the current DECompHP tools, but how does that help us in the short run?  We could also do what the open source community is known for, helping each other by building the tools ourselves.  Of course, I'm hopeful that it ends up inspiring VSI to make better tools ;-)

Cheers,
Richard