Re: Re: Re: Can flock occasionally fail on systems that support file locking?

That's not possible. Each instance of perl is independent of the other. Unless you use the fork function, it's not gonna happen.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Can flock occasionally fail on systems that support file locking? by rzward (Monk) on Jul 10, 2003 at 15:09 UTC
That's good to hear. I don't really want to try to figure out how to accommodate such behavior! Richard	[reply]

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.