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Re^3: Ensuring only one copy of a perl script is running at a time (race)

by PockMonk (Beadle)
on Dec 19, 2006 at 17:28 UTC ( [id://590712]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Ensuring only one copy of a perl script is running at a time (race)
in thread Ensuring only one copy of a perl script is running at a time

You will be happy to learn that I do use flock on opening the file so there is no danger of what you describe happening.

Rather than locking a file for the duration of the script, I simply lock it while changing its status etc. As posted, this allows me greater flexibility to post more info than just in use/not in use by using the file content to write codes to. Thanks anyway!

Dan

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