On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:39:02 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > (Ok, the upstream tag is just a guess.)
(Good idea.)
> LockFile::Simple->make(
> -autoclean => 1,
> -hold => 0,
> -stale => 1,
> -warn => 0)->lock('/var/lib/nihilist/db') || die "...";
>
> so I can just forget about the lock and it will be removed for me when
> the program is done. However, I get "WARNING: releasing 1 pending
> lock..." at program exit. Setting -wfunc => undef instead of -warn
> solves the problem, but warn is documented to suppress warnings too.
Agreed, this behaviour is not really intuitive.
From a short look in the code the message comes from
LockFile::Manager which doesn't honour the 'warn' property.
I'll pass this issue on the the upstream author.
Cheers,
gregor
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