[MacPerl] MacPerl versus -w

["Mat Marcus" <mmarcus@adobe.com>]

Hi MacPerlers,

Perhaps someone can help me. I am trying to evangelize macperl within my
group. My current efforts are focused on training people to use find2perl
under MPW. We are empoying a source code control system which is NOT
Projector/ckid based. Instead it unlocks files when they are checked out and
relocks them on checkin. In addition one is expected to be connected to the
network whenever checking out a file. Well, sometimes this is not possible.
I may manually unlock some files  on my laptop files during a meeting ( no
Airport :-( ). It seemed to me that a really cool use of find2perl would
involve scanning the source tree looking for unclocked .cpp or .h files. As
I posted to this group some time ago it appears that the -w test does not
work for soft locked files under the current release of MacPerl. I know I
could rely on checking the error code returned by calling 'open' or some
other such hack, but this hardly helps in my evangelism efforts. Not only
that, but I would like a reasonably fast test since the script will probably
have to visit tens of thousands of files. Will -w be fixed in 5.6 or in a
patch to the current version? I am looking for a reasonably fast yet elegant
solution. Perhaps I should just use a toolbox call? Suggestions anyone?

Thanks,
Mat


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