From: Mark Jason Dominus [mailto:mjd@plover.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:04 AM
To: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com
Subject: Re: Tie::File Last Records 


> I got Tie:file working on win32.  You really need to declare fcntl "OPTION"
> to get it to work.

You only need to do that if you're trying to get it to operate on a file
that you do not have permission to write to.  By default, Tie::File tries to
open the file for writing.


From: "Xxxxxxx Xxxxx" <Xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
To: "'Mark Jason Dominus'" <mjd@plover.com>
Subject: RE: Tie::File Last Records 
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:45:42 -0800

Maybe you want to make it clear in the document at CPAN that the default
behavior is opening in read/write mode and will generate an error if it does
not have permission to do so?  For example the line from CPAN can read,

"Normally, the specified file will be opened for read and write access, and
will be created if it does not exist. If the application does not have
permission to write to the specified file, declare the fcntl "OPTION" that
is the equivalent of the system file permissions to open the file."

Otherwise, the error message doesn't clue me in that file permissions is the
issue.  Vaguely yes, but only after contacting you to interpret it's
meaning.

Thanks for your support.

Xxxxxxx