in reply to Re: bareword in sysopen?
in thread bareword in sysopen?

'it doesn't make any sense to open a database for writing only.'

Why? Makes perfect sense to me. Its just another data store.

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Re^3: bareword in sysopen?
by periapt (Hermit) on Oct 24, 2008 at 13:02 UTC
    Mmmmm, you'll have to take that up with the writers of dbopen. That was their reasoning for making O_WRONLY trip an error.

    PJ
    use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;