From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:35:17 +0100 Message-ID: <43F687E5.8070905@op5.se> References: <94fc236b0602170718t76e01204ib2b50e33eaa5eeaa@mail.gmail.com> <20060217170345.GB3468@ELSAMSW37164> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tim O'Callaghan , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 18 03:35:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FAHwU-0000pA-JV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:35:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750742AbWBRCfX (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:35:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbWBRCfX (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:35:23 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:54189 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750742AbWBRCfW (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:35:22 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.20] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E3ED6BD04; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:35:21 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim O'Callaghan wrote: > > >>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote: >> >>>On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> >>>>I just got git to work on an Irix box. These are the changes I needed >>>>to apply. Maybe some of them are of use for other ancient systems... You >>>>know, I like ancient systems. And if I could get my hands on a VMS, I >>>>would try to get git to work on it, too ;-) >>> >>>You can get free VMS accounts at the Deathrow Cluster: >>>http://deathrow.vistech.net/ >>> >>>If you're serious about using your account, you'll find that the admin >>>team is pretty supportive and friendly. >> >>You should check out polarhome.com if you want a variety of platforms >>to muck about on, including IRIX, Plan 9, OpenVMS Vax, OpenVMS Alpha >>etc. >> >>I work on VMS systems at the moment and i thought of attempting to >>port git for the hell of it. I decided not to bother for a variety of >>reasons, but mostly because it looked like too much work :) > > > Well, I did not remember that VMS does not have a proper fork() call. It doesn't. It's got vfork() though. > BTW, my remark about VMS was more tongue-in-cheek than not... > Thanks anyway. I would never have gotten that link to polarhome if you'd kept your tongue straight. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231