On 16/08/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sebb wrote: > > On 14/08/05, John E. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Tests 7 and 8 for this script are failing on VMS. > >> > >>Test 7 is failing because normally on VMS, unless you specify otherwise, > >>you get exclusive access to the file, so the second open is failing. > >> > >>The logical name DECC$FILE_SHARING defined as "ENABLE" will change VMS > >>behavior to that of UNIX which will allow test 7 to pass. > >> > >>I can probably come up with some code to have the script on VMS make > >>sure that that value is set and to clear it on exit. > > > > Would it not be better to fix the VMS Perl open() call so it works the > > same as on other OSes? > > Carl Friedberg explained about the VMS default behavior. > > The logical name DECC$FILE_SHARING will locally change the behavior of > applications to be follow it, and this can be turned on and off locally > inside of a Perl script on VMS now. It turns off all file locking by > applications that open files through the C runtime support.
Yes, I just think this should not be necessary. > The issue that I can not work around is the one that you did not quote, > and that is that data from the test module has not yet been written to > the disk because the file is not closed, or an fsync() call has not been > made for it. Sounds as though the test may perhaps not be valid... I.e. is it sensible for the test to assume that the file will have been flushed? > -John > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Personal Opinion Only >
