Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS

Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS

Subject: Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite

> Based on feedback I got, here is an updated patch.  I would appreciate
> even more feedback as I added a t/op test that exercises the sysread,
> syswrite.  Especially appreciated experiences on non-UNIX systems like
> OS/2, VMS, we'll see how portable my very UNIXish ideas of what those
> two calls should do are... to be applied on top of 3_08.

Looks OK under VMS.  Appended is a patch to the test, which works around
the fact that file size as returned by -s isn't updated until a file is
closed.

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