At 03:56 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Mike Marmor wrote:
>Is there anything in Perl that implements something like event flags in VMS?
>
>What I'd like to do is wait for a semaphore to become available, and to be
>able
>to do this without spinning/checking.
You can use VMS::Lock to do this if you coordinate things--have the program
being watched aquire the lock, and have the waiting program attempt the
same thing so it'll block until the lock has been released.
If you're on 7.2 you can also try the VMS::ICC module, though that requires
some privs and might not be exactly what you want.
Dan
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