At 11:46 AM 9/23/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Teijo Aulin wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm running Apache 1.3.12 with mod_perl 1.23 under Win98. I downloaded
> > AutoRank from www.cgi-works.net and tried to run it. I got the following
> > error message: "flock() unimplemented on this platform at (eval 11)
> line 4."
> > I see that flock() is not implemented under win 98, so how can i fix this?
> > What would be the similar function under win 98? I run many scripts that
> > work on my server, so its not a matter of configuration. At least i think
> > so. :)
>
>I tend to just wrap flock in an eval, so that it works on Win9x, that is
>when I have to have something that works on that platform (not very
>often).
Wouldn't that just make sure the preciously locked resource is no longer
actually locked? While mod_perl is still 1 thread on apache for windows and
so may work on that narrow case, that doesn't seem like the best advice to
hand out.
Or am I missing something out of the message?
