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in thread Mysterious Disapperance of file contents

Keep in mind you can't use LOCK_UN safely because of buffering. Use close() for that.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Mysterious Disapperance of file contents
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 29, 2003 at 04:15 UTC

    Is that still true--I asked in total ignorance--given this from perlfunc:flock?

    To avoid the possibility of miscoordination, Perl now flushes FILEHANDLE before locking or unlocking it.
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