Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-24 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: [snip liblockfile] > Does anyone know how to call C functions from perl? That would be > the best way, wouldn't it? I didn't find it that difficult writing a module for fsync() when I needed to deliver to a qmail Maildir, once I got my head around w

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-24 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> Christian Schwarz writes: Christian> Wow! Thanks a lot for putting this library together. I Christian> think that is what we all have waited for. I'm glad it's done too. Christian>4. Someone (Karl?) should check the existing Perl Christian> module if it is compatible t

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 22 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking out >> Lars's "publib", I decided to write the locking functions >> from scratch. > > 2. The functions should b

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 22 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking out > Lars's "publib", I decided to write the locking functions > from scratch. Well not totally, it's partially based on the > qpopper locking stuff (which I also wrote). > > ftp://ftp.cistro

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Also check with Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has done a significant >amount of research on that issue for exim. >The locking code in exim is probably the newest, most up to date code I know. I just read the code in

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
Also check with Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has done a significant amount of research on that issue for exim. The locking code in exim is probably the newest, most up to date code I know. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking ou

NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking out Lars's "publib", I decided to write the locking functions from scratch. Well not totally, it's partially based on the qpopper locking stuff (which I also wrote). ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/testing/liblockfile-0.1.tar.gz I s