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[spider.git] / perl / DXUser.pm

diff --git a/perl/DXUser.pm b/perl/DXUser.pm
index 0785d16b2c1b1a6c1945ef41cc67a074b0a5dbbb..ca73a02ed2ffde0668dd9b4ce7e047a4ce3d3742 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXUser.pm
+++ b/perl/DXUser.pm
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ sub AUTOLOAD
        $name =~ s/.*:://o;
   
        confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
+       # this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
+       # from OO Perl - Conway
+       *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {@_ > 1 ? $_[0]->{$name} = $_[1] : $_[0]->{$name}} ;
        if (@_) {
                $self->{$name} = shift;
        }
@@ -337,7 +340,7 @@ BEGIN {
        
        # try to detect a lockfile (this isn't atomic but 
        # should do for now
-       $lockfn = "$root/perl/cluster.lock";       # lock file name
+       $lockfn = "$root/perl/cluster.lck";       # lock file name
        if (-e $lockfn) {
                open(CLLOCK, "$lockfn") or die "Can't open Lockfile ($lockfn) $!";
                my $pid = <CLLOCK>;