>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brad Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: 15 November 2000 20:31
>To: Dan Sugalski
>Cc: Patrick Spinler; '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
>Subject: Re: open source, porting, etc. (was RE: more observations
>(andquestions) on the SYS$I18N_LOCALE dirs)
>
>
>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.
>
A FAB idea!
[Sorry, couldn't resist]
--
Sebastian Bazley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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