Re: lib$spawn particulars

From: Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn_at_glug.org)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:17:43 -0500

koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

> Just make sure sys$output and sys$command are
> what you want them to be.

thanks for the tip. i had not thought about this.

> Do you map the PTY to an
> emacs window?

yes, this is the so-called shell (asynchronous DCL)-in-a-buffer feature.

i notice that "logout/full" displays extra summary info. would it be
correct to say that the ast call and event flag setting occur *strictly*
after this output?

> You may need to clean up the PTY, use "SHOW SYSTEM" to
> make sure that the subprocess really exited. In particular if you
> used a mailbox you never read the subprocess might be in RWMBX.

i see the subprocess has exited; it is the parent that is in LEF state.

thi