db under solaris

Jose Sanchez-Seco. CSIC RedIRIS wrote:
>
>Hi David,
>
>I use perl4 (GNU FSFperl package) on Solaris 2.4 and I have changed all the
>SOCK_STREAM's, but what's about the flock() function?? This function is
>available only on SunOS and BSD-style machines. At this moment, I am trying to
>emulate this function whith calls to fcntl().
>
>Also, I have try to compile Perl4 whit /usr/ucblib/libucb but this an
>impossible task. I have read in the Perl4 FAQ's that it is better to forget
>about BSDism's like that :-(.
>
>If anyone know more about this matter, I will be happy to hear him.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Jose Sanchez-Seco.
>
>
All the experts here agree that perl4 on Solaris2.* is a no-no. So I
haven't tried. Running rip-db under perl 5 seems to give strange db
results, like it doesn't update anything...Still investigating, I think
we will try and so what it does on linux :-)

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