Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support ancient systems

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:18:35PM +0100, Adrien Beau wrote:

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On 2/17/06, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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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.


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