From: Ken Gillett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tie DB_File flags
Date sent: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:59:52 +0000
To: Marcello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 26 Jan 2005, at 14:47, Marcello wrote:
>
> > Ken Gillett ha scritto:
> >> Information about these has proved hard to come by, but having
> >> ascertained what I need to use I find another problem. I want to
> >> calculate the flags to use beforehand, but if I try
> >> tie %$dbm, "DB_File", $dbf, $dbflags, $mode, $DB_HASH;
> >> even though $dbflags contains O_RDONLY I get the following error:=
> >> Argument "O_RDONLY" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at
> >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux/DB_File.pm
> >
> > You are passing the string "O_RDONLY" to the subroutine, no the
> > value of O_RDONLY.
> >
> > Maybe this works (untested):
> >
> > <code>
> > $dbflags = O_RDONLY;
>
> Because PERL wouldn't let me. BUT, I just tried it again and it didn't
> complain and the 'tie' worked perfectly, even when using
> O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC. :-)
I guess the constants were not imported into the main namespace. Any
chance you had something like
use DB_File ();
in the code? That way the constants would not be imported.
Jenda
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