Re: [ID 20000125.002] Problem in documentation of Fcntl constants

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

I think you are overreaching.

And Perl has historically expected people to use 1, 2, 4, and 8.  It's
only recently that the constants were available.

    % perl -le 'use Fcntl ":flock";  print LOCK_SH'
    1
    % perl -le 'use Fcntl ":flock";  print LOCK_EX'
    2
    % perl -le 'use Fcntl ":flock";  print LOCK_NB'
    4
    % perl -le 'use Fcntl ":flock";  print LOCK_UN'
    8

Sounds like people are too uptight.  Perl is well-defined
as to what flock(FH, 6) means.  It has to be, because a lot
of cruddy systems don't have a proper flock(2), so it has
to convert.

--tom

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