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Re^2: Mechanism for ensuring only one instance of a Perl script can only run?

by redapplesonly (Sexton)
on Dec 02, 2022 at 17:04 UTC ( #11148506=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


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Thanks Corion! So one caveat I have is that if a newly-executed script realizes that there's another instance already at work, I want the new script to terminate immediately, not enter a queue to run later. It looks like flock() doesn't offer a "terminate immediately" option... or am I missing the bigger picture. Thank you so much for writing.
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Re^3: Mechanism for ensuring only one instance of a Perl script can only run?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 02, 2022 at 17:43 UTC

    No. flock returns a false value if it cannot lock a file because it is already locked. The idea is that you then exit your program:

    use Fcntl qw(LOCK_EX LOCK_NB); my $scriptname = $0; # assuming that all script instances will be invo +ked the same way open my $script, $scriptname or die "Couldn't find myself?! Looked for '$script', but got $!"; if( !flock $script, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB ) { print "We are already running\n"; exit 1; }; sleep 60

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