Hi, > Long term what I think would be best would be to get File::FcntlLock > into the perl core distribution, preferably upstream, but I'm not sure > how such proposals are handled there and if something like that would > be feasible, Jens what do you think? And/or would that be possible in > Debian, maybe in the interim or regardless of perl core upstream?
I've never considered trying to get this module included into the Perl core distribution (and I also wouldn't know how to get started with something like that;-) Unfortunately, I also don't see any way to do things without XS since the flock structure that must be passed to fcntl(2) can be quite dif- ferent on different systems, both concerning the number and ordering of its members as well as the sizes of them:-( I would love to hear ideas on how to do it differently, i.e. with Perl-only methods! As far as I can see I can't contribute anything useful here, sorry. If someone has some pointers on how to go about getting it into the Perl core distribution I would try that, though I'd rather likely need a lot of very good arguments to convince peo- ple deciding about such things - some of you might be in a better situation for that. But they might argue that you already can get fcntl(2) used for locking instead of flock(2) by building Perl with "-Ud_flock" (don't ask me why that's not the default anyway;-) Perhaps building the Perl version distributed with Debian with that option might be another solution? Best regards, Jens -- \ Jens Thoms Toerring ________ j...@toerring.de \_______________________________ http://toerring.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org