Re: [OT] flock under win32

2000-09-25 Thread Alexander Farber (EED)
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: Don

Re: [OT] flock under win32

2000-09-24 Thread Rodney Broom
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

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-24 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, 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 issu

Re: OT: flock under win32

2000-09-24 Thread Gunther Birznieks
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 o

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Jim Winstead
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 issue > presumably. Removing the lock is a matter o

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 05:54 PM 9/23/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: >On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > > 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

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > 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

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Gunther Birznieks
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 o

Re: flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
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()

flock under win32

2000-09-23 Thread Teijo Aulin
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 thi