| Subject: | Log::StdLog v0.0.3 machines that do not implement flock |
| Date: | Tue, 22 May 2007 11:13:50 -0400 |
| To: | bug-Log-StdLog [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Peter Edwards <PEdwards [...] factset.com> |
Thanks for the module. I thought I'd give it a go on VMS, but VMS Perl
does not implement flock, and calls produce a fatal error.
You could check for flock using:
use Config;
my $HAS_FLOCK = $Config{'d_flock'};
But without a file system that supports file versioning such as VMS I
think the log file is no longer updated atomically.
Maybe:
use English;
my $SKIP_FLOCK = $OSNAME eq 'VMS';
Might be a better way to go, I guess it all depends on if you want the
module to be used to write to logs non atomically on
systems that don't support flock or a versioning file system.
When the flock calls are not made on VMS the module passes all it's tests.
Peter (Stig) Edwards