From: rkinyon Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:19:31 +0000 (+0000) Subject: A couple documentation fixes X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fremotes%2Fwin32_fixes;p=dbsrgits%2FDBM-Deep.git A couple documentation fixes --- diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 84aa1b1..d6066b3 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ Revision history for DBM::Deep. - (This version is compatible with 1.0007) - Fixed a number of Win32 issues (Reported by Steven Samelson - thank you!) - Much thanks to Nigel Sandever and David Golden for their help - debugging the issues, particularly with DBM::Deep's usage of - File::Temp which removes a number of warnings. + debugging the issues, particularly with DBM::Deep's usage of + File::Temp (which removes a number of warnings). - Autovivification now works on Win32. It turns out that when a - process takes a shared flock on a file, it's not allowed to write to - it under Win32, unlike *nix. This is probably a good catch. + process takes a shared flock on a file, it's not allowed to write to + it under Win32, unlike *nix. This is probably a good catch. + - Note: The fix is a hack. All locks are now exclusive until a + better fix is found. 1.0007 Jan 10 00:00:00 2008 EDT - (This version is compatible with 1.0006) diff --git a/lib/DBM/Deep.pod b/lib/DBM/Deep.pod index d7fe1ed..0711b5e 100644 --- a/lib/DBM/Deep.pod +++ b/lib/DBM/Deep.pod @@ -582,6 +582,12 @@ L module. # something here $db->unlock(); +=head2 Win32/Cygwin + +Due to Win32 actually enforcing the read-only status of a shared lock, all +locks on Win32 and cygwin are exclusive. This is because of how autovivification +currently works. Hopefully, this will go away in a future release. + =head1 IMPORTING/EXPORTING You can import existing complex structures by calling the C method,