Re: Draft manifest

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:13:37PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Second niggly problem is Fcntl.  Andy Dougherty's view (AD in the comment
> > below) was that it was reasonable for a perl script to expect Fcntl to have
> > been built.
> 
> Why would Fcntl be a major requirement? Where would a bootstrapping
> process need it for?

The O_XXX of sysopen() come to mind as a possible reason for Fcntl,
but I think bootstrap-like tasks should be possible without those
I think only O_EXCL and O_NONBLOCK are something you can't get from
the standard open(), and the need for that level of control in a
bootstrap/build/etc is debatable.

> -- Johan

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