At 19:39 -0500 1/9/02, Chris Nandor wrote: >flock() is rarely necessary in MacPerl. Mac OS won't allow more than one >app to write to a file at one time, usually, anyway.
If that's the case why can't I attempt to access a file, for writing, in the process of being downloaded by either MacPerl's www modules or, via AppleEvents, a browser and expect to get a failure so I can wait for completion? What happens is that perl goes ahead and reads an empty file. There is a real confusion between the operation of the AppleOS and perl's insistence that file access behave according to UNIX conventions. AppleScript has the same problem. Flock only applies to cooperative UNIX processes anyway. iCab now actually returns a completion message to an AppleEvent requesting a download. It is a refreshing change. -- --> If you are presented a number as a percentage, and you do not clearly understand the numerator and the denominator involved, you are surely being lied to. <--
