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Commit 48d72f12 authored by Brad King's avatar Brad King
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ENH: Teach KWSys Process basic VMS support

This achieves basic process execution on OpenVMS.  We use work-arounds
for different fork()/exec() behavior and a lack of select().

VMS emulates fork/exec using setjmp/longjmp to evaluate the child and
parent return cases from fork.  Therefore both must be invoked from the
same function.

Since select() works only for sockets we use the BeOS-style polling
implementation.  However, non-blocking reads on empty pipes cannot be
distinguished easily from the last read on a closed pipe.  Therefore we
identify end of data by an empty read after the child terminates.
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