On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 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.
Hmm. Sounds like we need a d_fcntl_can_lock Configure variable.
Then VMS and DOS/DJGPP could set that to undef.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
