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in reply to bareword in sysopen?

According to the doc page DB_File uses the constants defined in the dbopen function library. A quick web search on "man dbopen" suggest that the constants defined in fcntl.h are part of this library so I would try "use Fcntl" to see if that clears up your errors.

Interestingly, the doc page indicates that using O_WRONLY as a flag to the open action will produce an error since it doesn't make any sense to open a database for writing only. It's probably a different, non-db, file that is being opened this way.

PJ
use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;

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Re^2: bareword in sysopen?
by chrism01 (Friar) on Oct 21, 2008 at 07:47 UTC
    'it doesn't make any sense to open a database for writing only.'

    Why? Makes perfect sense to me. Its just another data store.

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      Mmmmm, you'll have to take that up with the writers of dbopen. That was their reasoning for making O_WRONLY trip an error.

      PJ
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