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diff --git a/devel/p5-File-FlockDir/DESCR b/devel/p5-File-FlockDir/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2b5d538ce0c --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-File-FlockDir/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +A flock module for Windows9x and other systems lacking +a good perl flock() function (not platform specific) + +Rationale: flock on Win95/98 is badly broken but +perl code needs to be portable. In addition, sometimes code written +to use flock() on one workstation needs to be ported to running on +several networked servers and clients. One way to allow this is +to override perl's open(), flock(), and close(). We then get an +absolute file specification for all opened files and and use it in +a hash to create a unique lock for the file using the File::LockDir +module from the "Perl Cookbook", by Christiansen and Torkington +(O'Reilly, 1998). This module may be included in the CPAN +distribution but belongs to those authors. New code has been +kept to a minimum. |