File update test

Wassercrats has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm having a problem with a cgi script and I think it's due to a log not being updated soon enough after it's written to. My script writes to a log, then loads my homepage, and within a matter of seconds, a SSI needs what was just written to the log. Do I need to perform some kind of check after updating the log that will delay the loading of my homepage? What's the best way to do it?

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Re: File update test by Masem (Monsignor) on Mar 20, 2002 at 04:25 UTC
You need to flush the output handle before you try to read the data. See this page on Perl and Buffering by Dominus for more information. ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com \|\| "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain "I can see my house from here!" It's not what you know, but knowing how to find it if you don't know that's important	[reply]
Re: Re: File update test by Wassercrats (Initiate) on Mar 20, 2002 at 04:43 UTC
Wow, I just read that for a problem two days ago and I didn't think about it even though it's even more relevant to my current problem. I hope it will actually work for this one. Thanks.	[reply]