Re: Locking question

[Greg Bacon <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu>]

In article <85nr1c$htf$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
	mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.J.T. Guy) writes:

: In article <85ktum$hip$1@info2.uah.edu>, Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu> wrote:
:
: >Indeed.  I applied this patch:
: 
: Errr... where?    It hasn't shown up on p5p yet.

It should have by now.

: And I suggest it should also set $! to EBADF.    Returning false without
: setting $! is wrong.

Ok, apply this atop the patch I sent to p5p as Message-ID
<200001150340.VAA05938@ruby.itsc.uah.edu>:

diff -ru perl5.005_63+closed-warnings/pp_sys.c perl5.005_63/pp_sys.c
--- perl5.005_63+closed-warnings/pp_sys.c       Fri Jan 14 18:44:04 2000
+++ perl5.005_63/pp_sys.c       Mon Jan 17 13:00:26 2000
@@ -1986,6 +1986,7 @@
     }
     else {
        value = 0;
+       SETERRNO(EBADF,RMS$_IFI);
        if (ckWARN(WARN_CLOSED))
            Perl_ck_open_dir(aTHX_ gv, GvIO(gv), "flock", "filehandle");
     }
End of Patch.

Greg
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