From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T02:54:16+09:00
Subject: Re: solaris porting problem -- flock failure?

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "a" == ahoward  <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
>
> a> ~ > uname -a && ruby -v
> a> Linux eli.fsl.noaa.gov 2.4.2-2 #1 SMP Fri Nov 23 20:51:15 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
> a> ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  This is the latest version of Solaris ? :-)))

whoops, wrong terminal

hero.fsl.noaa.gov$ uname -a
SunOS hero.fsl.noaa.gov 5.6 Generic_105181-33 sun4u sparc

> moulon% ls flock.o missing/flock.c
> flock.o  missing/flock.c
> moulon%
>
> moulon% grep flock.o Makefile
> MISSING =  flock.o isinf.o
> flock.o: $(srcdir)/missing/flock.c
> moulon%

odd that it builds flock when it is not missing on this system?

are you saying that the ruby implimentation of flock _is_ safe to use from
multi threaded applications then?

-a

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