Re: flock and Fcntl

2003-01-09 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
See perldoc -f flock, but specifically, no you do not need the 'use' statement with the way you are calling flock, that is with the '2' instead of using one of the "symbolic" names that Fcntl:flock provides, from the aforementioned perldoc: "OPERATION is one of LOCK_SH, LOCK_EX, or LOCK_UN, pos

Re: taint mode

2003-01-09 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Is it possible to hardcode the location of wget as I am wondering if calling a program with a non-specific location in 'system' is what is causing the problem (have a look at perldoc perlsec for what I mean). I guess the other question I have is what does this have to do with booting the system

flock and Fcntl

2003-01-09 Thread Rene Verharen
Hi all, Do I always need use Fcntl qw(:flock); if I want to use flock(FILEHANDLE, 2) in my scripts ? I'm asking because some scripts I found on the web do and some other don't, although they all use flock. Is there also a nice way to omit the "flock() unimplemented on this platform"

taint mode

2003-01-09 Thread Alex Blum
hi there. I have this problem: there's a script, that runs just fine, until it dives into a subroutine, where it is supposed to chmod() and chown() a bunch of files - but fails miserably because of the taint mode... ok. there's two options: 1. I'm lazy and don't care much about security and just

Weekly list FAQ posting

2003-01-09 Thread casey
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