Re: make test for DBI fails on Win98

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:02:47PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:17:16 +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:

Try the appended patch and let me know if it works for you.

Yes, after the patch all tests pass.

Funny, CPAN.pm also recently introduced similar code with similar
problems. Is this a conspiracy, or just thoughtlessness? :)

I'm not sure ignoring Win98 can be called thoughtlessness these days.
Umm, hardly worthy of a conspiracy either.

:)

Win98 has other typical solutions, such as: you can't open a file for
output in 2 programs at the same time. Surely there must be a way to
emulate flock on Win98, using an extra lock file... That way you'd only
be covered for programs written in Perl, adhering to the same
convention, but probably that should suffice. Just thinking out loud...

Patches welcome at perl5-porters@xxxxxxxx ...

Tim.
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