[mv] A nuisance in Vend::Util.pm?

[Sergio Polini <s.polini@mclink.it>]

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Perhaps I'm missing something, since I'm new to Minivend.
My problem was that I could not stop it; both -stop and -kill gave me the same
message about a file that could not be locked. I've found a workaround, but it
is very dirty :-)

I've installed Minivend 4.04 on my Linux (RedHat 6.2) as sp:users and always run
it as sp:users (I'm just studying for now...). My Linux is "localized" as
italian: here is the problem, as far as I can guess.

The message I was getting was:

  Could not lock file: Risorsa temporaneamente non disponibile

i.e., "Resourse temporarily unavailable" in italian...

In Vend::Util.pm, subroutine flock_lock, I read:

        if (! flock($fh, $flag | $flock_LOCK_NB)) {
            if ($! =~ m/^Try again/
                or $! =~ m/^Resource temporarily unavailable/
                or $! =~ m/^Operation would block/) {
                return 0;
            }
            else {
                die "Could not lock file: $! ($errno)\n";
            }
        }

The error code is checked againt its english description!
I tried:

            else {
		my $errno = $! + 1000;
                die "Could not lock file: $! ($errno)\n";
            }

so I was able to patch the if branch:

            if ($! =~ m/^Try again/
                or $! =~ m/^Resource temporarily unavailable/
		or $! == 11       # :-(
                or $! =~ m/^Operation would block/) {
                return 0;
            }

Stop and kill work well now, but I'm not proud for my hack :-)

Any better ideas?

Tranks.

Sergio



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