At 4:34 PM -0800 10/30/00, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>The real fix would appear to be set d_fcntl='undef' in
>VMS's config.sh.
Hmm. But fcntl() does exist in recent versions of the C RTL -- it
just doesn't do locking, as you point out. I'd rather have us tell
the truth and code the tests to match. If we undef F_SETLK and
F_SETLKW when they don't work (currently always) then we correctly
signal that there is no flock() or emulation thereof but leave other
fcntl() functionality intact.
>It's actually a mystery why the fcntl is so unhelpful
>in this regard.
Indeed. I assume it's non-trivial or it would have been done by now.
In an asynchronous post on this thread the other Peter said:
>Yes, but what will Configure do when it discovers it has no "flock" and
>no way to emulate it at all? Does it barf?
I think it can handle the case where there's no emulation, but even
if it can't, the truth hurts sometimes and it should learn to deal
with it :-).
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