Unfortunately, as I noted above, we have to be able to run "everywhere". This excludes using Storable (Gods, I'd *KILL* to use Storable, it's made my life MUCH easier in other projects) and any sort of DBM file, as we can not rely on things that must be compiled on the system, may not be versions we expect, or may otherwise be out of date. (Meaning that we've ended up rolling our own mutations of common modules such as MIME::Lite and CGI just to avoid having to rely on preinstalled copies).

That throws 1, 2, and 3 right out the window. :( :( :(

As for 4... The previous permutation of this script ocassionally had to read a couple hundred (or thousand) files at once... I've fixed that now. Unfortunately, eliminating that problem only made the other problems that had been lurking in the background come out. (You surely know the story - you have three bugs, so fixing one makes the other two show up even more... :) )

5 is already in progress... not that it would ever be an official release. Management is sending mixed signals. (Thankfully, the product has a healthy community of code hackers who are continuously adding on and altering things... they'll figure out what I did sooner or later! :) )

Thank you for the input.. this is VERY valuable stuff!

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 3: File locking, lock files, and how it all sucks by tocie
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