Hi all,
Here's my two cents worth (or less):
Teijo Aulin I got the following error message: "flock() unimplemented on this
platform...
Teijo Aulin I see that flock() is not implemented under win 98, so how can I
fix this?
Matt Sergeant It can't ever be locked under Win9x because it doesn't
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/docs/lib/Pod/perlport.html#item_flock
flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION
Not implemented (Mac OS, VMS, RISC OS, VOS).
Available only on Windows NT (not on Windows 95). (Win32)
and there is also this note in the same document:
At 12:46 AM 9/24/2000 -0400, Jim Winstead wrote:
On Sep 24, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
The PerlCookbook seemed to indicate that mkdir is an atomic operation
(both
checks if the directory exists and creates it if it does not), so a
locking
mechanism based on mkdir would take care of this
