Re^3: File lock demo

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Empty lock files certainly aren't wrong either. MJD's talk discusses how many problems can be solved by using a lockfile that is different from the target working files. And that's what you're doing. I mostly just didn't want someone seeing open my $fh, '>', ...; and then flock, and think this idiom will translate well to locking an output file that they intend to write to.

Dave

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Re^4: File lock demo by LanX (Saint) on Apr 21, 2021 at 21:07 UTC
> 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 :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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Re^4: File lock demo
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 21, 2021 at 21:07 UTC

> 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 :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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