At 12:30 PM 11/15/00 -0800, Brad Hughes wrote:
>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.
Nope. How do you lock a range of bytes in a stream file, or a range of
bytes in a record-oriented file that doesn't correspond to a record?
Dan
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