At 6:04 PM -0600 3/7/98, stanislav shalunov wrote: >A side note (by no means I am a Perl hacker; I do not know Perl well): >Perl does not provide a clear way to open a file with O_EXCL. This >might be considered a reasonable thing to add to the language. It certainly is. Pity it's already in there. :-) The sysopen() built-in function allows you to open a file with the O_* flags; look at the sysopen entry in 'man perlfunc' for details. Furthermore, the object-oriented IO::File interface allows you to say things like: $fh = new IO::File "file", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND; # from the IO::File docs. Or $fh = IO::File->new("file", FLAGS), for that matter, just to make Chip happy. :-) Good job with the quick patch... it's frightening to think how many common utilities probably have this kind of lurking bug. dennis taylor __________________________________________________________________________ Dennis Taylor "Anyone whose days are all the same and free from corbeauat_private want inhabits eternity of a sort." - Peter Hoeg __________________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint: E8D6 9670 4FBD EEC3 6C6B 810B 2B30 E529 51BD 7B90
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