(it's dumb) Re: DON'T USE THIS CODE

I --ed you.

I say in pod

File::DumbLock implements the dumbest kind of "locking" mechanism known to man. It's voluntary, and it can backfire, but virtually every plaform suports it.

Most of your comments fall apart in face of that statement.

Flock is not supported on win9x.

I think people are --ing you because you haven't offered any alternatives, and thus your statements sound smart-alecky.

I certainly would like to know what

ways of executing "atomic" test-and-set operations

are for win9x.

Are you talking about attempting to create a "lock directory" instead of a lock file (now that I think about it, that's what i'll change it to do)?

I for one would like to know( i do say above: "If you know of a module that already exists that does this, please /tell me", did I have to also say if you know a better flockless way, tell me?)

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•Re: (it's dumb) Re: DON'T USE THIS CODE by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 16, 2002 at 13:51 UTC
Look, your code breaks on every platform. It's dangerous. It will start to spread a bad meme to most of the other platforms, and we don't need that. You have not contributed anything to the art. You have only muddied the water. perlport says that flock works on Win2K. Hence, the solutions I wrote nearly seven years ago for Unix work fine on Win2K today. The only place this breaks down is on older win95 and win98 releases. For that, your solution offers nothing that works consistently, and even definitely fails because you are performing time-related operations in separate steps, and would be a step backwards for the community at large. You have not solved a thing with your post. You have only harmed the community. Thus, I stepped in to try to mark this code as bad as quick as I could. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: •Re: (it's dumb) Re: DON'T USE THIS CODE by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 16, 2002 at 14:23 UTC
Well thank you for helping. You've certainly solved my dilemma. Ok, so what do you think of File::FlockDir? (i just ran accross it) `____________________________________________________` ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.	[reply]
Re: (it's dumb) Re: DON'T USE THIS CODE by valdez (Monsignor) on Sep 16, 2002 at 13:57 UTC
One ~~example~~ strategy could be `unlink`: you try to delete something and check for the result. If you succeeded, you obtained the lock. This approach makes things more complicated for stale locks... Ciao, Valerio update: thanks podmaster for the hint.	[reply] [d/l]


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