On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 15:13, James Harr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jharr@ist.unomaha.edu">jharr@ist.unomaha.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>> It
wouldn't be the first time perl didn't (or couldn't) hide a scary OS
behavior from the programmer. > If you can't find anything on the
subject, just write a test program to hammer flock() for a while and
> see if it grants two mutual locks on the same file. <br><br>Yup, that's my plan. When I get the green light after some other projects come up I might send my test script out to the list and let others test it on their systems. (Thankfully for me, I just have to test a handfull of UNIX variants...multiplied times the common filesystems...ouch!)<br>
<br>> Win32:: might also
have something that'd work > for you and behaves better on that platform.<br>
<br>Yeah, my worst fear is that someone will say "Sure, this app will run on Windows ME with FAT-32 drives!" and expect me to support it... :-O :-D<br><br>Dan<br><br clear="all">"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who can watch the watchmen?) -- from the Satires of Juvenal<br>
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