SPUG: Perl Question?

[jerry gay]

On 12/13/05, Ben Prew <ben.prew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not that I have any first-hand knowledge in this area, but does't the
> previous comment about locking a readonly item hold true for $0 as well?  If
> $0 is readonly, wouldn't that also cause the lock to fail?
>
duh--of course it would. and here i thought it was failing because the
data handle was read-only, not the file itself. what a silly mistake.
move along, nothing to see here.

~jerry