Re: [Omaha.pm] Differences to expect when using flock() on different OS and Filesystems.

[Dan Linder <dan@linder.org>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 15:13, James Harr <jharr@ist.unomaha.edu> wrote:
> 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. 

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!)

> Win32:: might also
have something that'd work > for you and behaves better on that platform.

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

Dan

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