•Re: Re: use flock() to determine if other script is running

On platforms where flock is not supported, it's not a "fatal error". It won't even compile. So an eval-block won't work... you have to use an eval-string instead.

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Re: •Re: Re: use flock() to determine if other script is running by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 21, 2003 at 03:43 UTC
Perhaps for VMS and suchlike, I don't know. On AS build 630 (perl 5.6.1)/Windows95, which does not support flock, my code gives: `C:\download>perl -c flock.pl flock.pl syntax OK C:\download>perl flock.pl flock not supported! flock() unimplemented at flock.pl line` [download] at which point winders wrote off the edge of the screen and lost the line number ;-) My 'fatal error' jargon came directly from '`perldoc -f flock`'. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]

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by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 21, 2003 at 03:43 UTC

Perhaps for VMS and suchlike, I don't know. On AS build 630 (perl 5.6.1)/Windows95, which does not support flock, my code gives:

C:\download>perl -c flock.pl
flock.pl syntax OK
C:\download>perl flock.pl
flock not supported! flock() unimplemented at flock.pl line
[download]

My 'fatal error' jargon came directly from 'perldoc -f flock'.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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