Re: Re: Bug#677865: dpkg-gencontrol warns about 'File::FcntlLock not available'
Hi,
> Long term what I think would be best would be to get File::FcntlLock
> into the perl core distribution, preferably upstream, but I'm not sure
> how such proposals are handled there and if something like that would
> be feasible, Jens what do you think? And/or would that be possible in
> Debian, maybe in the interim or regardless of perl core upstream?
I've never considered trying to get this module included into
the Perl core distribution (and I also wouldn't know how to
get started with something like that;-) Unfortunately, I also
don't see any way to do things without XS since the flock
structure that must be passed to fcntl(2) can be quite dif-
ferent on different systems, both concerning the number and
ordering of its members as well as the sizes of them:-( I
would love to hear ideas on how to do it differently, i.e.
with Perl-only methods!
As far as I can see I can't contribute anything useful here,
sorry. If someone has some pointers on how to go about getting
it into the Perl core distribution I would try that, though I'd
rather likely need a lot of very good arguments to convince peo-
ple deciding about such things - some of you might be in a better
situation for that. But they might argue that you already can get
fcntl(2) used for locking instead of flock(2) by building Perl with
"-Ud_flock" (don't ask me why that's not the default anyway;-)
Perhaps building the Perl version distributed with Debian with
that option might be another solution?
Best regards, Jens
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