http://qs1969.pair.com?node_id=11131553


in reply to Re^3: File lock demo
in thread File lock demo

> and think this idiom will translate well to locking an output file that they intend to write to.

Yeah, I have to make that clear to my colleagues. My concern was the warning in the docs that locking might fail if the lock-file is not opened for writing.

And the side effects on Win are giving me a hard time when following recipes born on Linux.

Thanks for sharing those links! :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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