Dan Sugalski wrote: [...] > What we need to do to get things 'right' is to rewrite stdio and implement > flock/fcntl properly. The problem with that is that it needs to be done in > a way that meshes with the rest of VMS (what's the use of a record lock > that only perl programs can see?) and that can't really be done without the > aid of the OS and RMS folks. Not that it's an easy task, but wouldn't modifying the PerlIO abstraction layer to only use RMS calls accomplish this? It would require someone who really knows his XABs from his RABs, but could still be done using only the available RMS interface.
