[MacPerl] Re: Writable file test broken?

[Mat Marcus <mmarcus@Adobe.COM>]

Stewart Leicester wrote:
>>So why doesn't -w work?

Chris Nandor wrote:
>I dunno.  But I never use it, as I consider it Not The Best Way.  What do
>you want to do with the file?  If you want to open the file for writing,
>just do it and check the return value.  There is not much reason to make it
>a two-step process, usually.  First, one step is faster than two; second,
>something could conceivably happen in between the time you check its
>writability and the time you open it, so it is less reliable.

I do not wish to write (or destroy!) anything. We are using a
source-control system which soft-locks files which are not checked out. It
does not make use of 'ckid' resources. There are a number of scripts I
would like to write in perl to automate my workflow. A simple example would
be to list all files which I have checked out. I would like this to run as
fast as possible.

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