From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T11:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: posixlock in Debian (fwd)

On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:29 , Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> i've got quite a few emails from people who rely on the posixlock  
> extension
> and have thrown a few posts out there requesting it be merged into  
> the core as
> an ext.  is there any reason not to do so?  if not, what would  
> expedite the
> process?

For what it's worth, I second this. I needed a file lock the other  
day, and was surprised to find no implementation of flock() in Ruby.  
(I ended up doing unsafe locking and crossing my fingers.)


mathew