Re: Pear-Installer on win
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:15:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Pear-Installer on win | ||
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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 15:29, Alexander Merz wrote:
> Stig S. Bakken wrote:
>
>
> > Does file locking work too? What about "pear list-installed"?
> I did a deep checking. Locking can't work on Win98/Me, because flock
> uses LockFileEx.
> This function is only supported by WinNT/2000/XP.
>
> Two possibilities:
> - deactivate locking on Win98/ME (should be no problem, nobody would run
> a multi-user server on them :-)
> - change implementation of flock to use LockFile() which is avaible on
> Win98/Me
For now I think deactivating locking on 98/ME is ok, but we should
replace it with dotlocking eventually.
- Stig