>>>>> "Christer" == Christer Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christer> Very elegant. I like that. Unfurtunately I can't get that to work on Christer> HP-UX. A trace with tusc shows that the fcntl syscall on DATA always Christer> fails with errno=9 (EBADF) Christer> Not a big problem, the easy solution is to open a real file and lock Christer> that one like above. That works. I just thought someone was interested Christer> to know this. I've been told that this fails on some platforms because you can't get an exclusive lock on a file that's not open R/W, which seems completely silly to me, trying to protect the programmer from themselves. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
