7 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
13 use vmsish 'status'; # or '$?'
19 vmsish::hushed($hush);
26 If no import list is supplied, all possible VMS-specific features are
27 assumed. Currently, there are four VMS-specific features available:
28 'status' (a.k.a '$?'), 'exit', 'time' and 'hushed'.
30 If you're not running VMS, this module does nothing.
34 =item C<vmsish status>
36 This makes C<$?> and C<system> return the native VMS exit status
37 instead of emulating the POSIX exit status.
41 This makes C<exit 1> produce a successful exit (with status SS$_NORMAL),
42 instead of emulating UNIX exit(), which considers C<exit 1> to indicate
43 an error. As with the CRTL's exit() function, C<exit 0> is also mapped
44 to an exit status of SS$_NORMAL, and any other argument to exit() is
45 used directly as Perl's exit status.
49 This makes all times relative to the local time zone, instead of the
50 default of Universal Time (a.k.a Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT).
52 =item C<vmsish hushed>
54 This suppresses printing of VMS status messages to SYS$OUTPUT and
55 SYS$ERROR if Perl terminates with an error status. and allows
56 programs that are expecting "unix-style" Perl to avoid having to parse
57 VMS error messages. It does not supress any messages from Perl
58 itself, just the messages generated by DCL after Perl exits. The DCL
59 symbol $STATUS will still have the termination status, but with a
63 $ perl -e"exit 44;" Non-hushed error exit
64 %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort DCL message
66 $STATUS == "%X0000002C"
68 $ perl -e"use vmsish qw(hushed); exit 44;" Hushed error exit
70 $STATUS == "%X1000002C"
72 The 'hushed' flag has a global scope during compilation: the exit() or
73 die() commands that are compiled after 'vmsish hushed' will be hushed
74 when they are executed. Doing a "no vmsish 'hushed'" turns off the
77 The status of the hushed flag also affects output of VMS error
78 messages from compilation errors. Again, you still get the Perl
79 error message (and the code in $STATUS)
82 use vmsish 'hushed'; # turn on hushed flag
83 use Carp; # Carp compiled hushed
84 exit 44; # will be hushed
85 croak('I die'); # will be hushed
86 no vmsish 'hushed'; # turn off hushed flag
87 exit 44; # will not be hushed
88 croak('I die2'): # WILL be hushed, croak was compiled hushed
90 You can also control the 'hushed' flag at run-time, using the built-in
91 routine vmsish::hushed(). Without argument, it returns the hushed status.
92 Since vmsish::hushed is built-in, you do not need to "use vmsish" to call
99 print "Sssshhhh...I'm hushed...\n" if vmsish::hushed();
102 Note that an exit() or die() that is compiled 'hushed' because of "use
103 vmsish" is not un-hushed by calling vmsish::hushed(0) at runtime.
105 The messages from error exits from inside the Perl core are generally
106 more serious, and are not supressed.
110 See L<perlmod/Pragmatic Modules>.
114 my $IsVMS = $^O eq 'VMS';
119 foreach $sememe (@_) {
120 # Those hints are defined in vms/vmsish.h :
121 # HINT_M_VMSISH_STATUS and HINT_M_VMSISH_TIME
122 $bits |= 0x40000000, next if $sememe eq 'status' || $sememe eq '$?';
123 $bits |= 0x80000000, next if $sememe eq 'time';
129 return unless $IsVMS;
132 $^H |= bits(@_ ? @_ : qw(status time));
135 foreach $sememe (@_ ? @_ : qw(exit hushed)) {
136 $^H{'vmsish_exit'} = 1 if $sememe eq 'exit';
137 vmsish::hushed(1) if $sememe eq 'hushed';
142 return unless $IsVMS;
145 $^H &= ~ bits(@_ ? @_ : qw(status time));
148 foreach $sememe (@_ ? @_ : qw(exit hushed)) {
149 $^H{'vmsish_exit'} = 0 if $sememe eq 'exit';
150 vmsish::hushed(0) if $sememe eq 'hushed';