Hi Frank--

> ...how difficult would it be to get the necessary VM changes for this
> feature into the main VMs?

     It would be easy if the Unix VM build instructions were accurate.
:)  I wrote a separate message to vm-dev with details. The changes are
at [1]. Please feel free to integrate them while I do, please let me
know if you get somewhere.


     thanks,

-C

[1] http://tinyurl.com/p999omz

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