I want to use flock more often in my programming. I have thought that it would be nice to try to flock the file more than once. Because if i use flock(FH,1) or die.. then i'm afraid it will cause the program to error when it simply can't get the lock on the first try.

so I've been trying to think of control structures to allow for 10 trys, or more. I'm not sure I know a good number of times to loop back over, because all of this could happen in a fraction of a milisecond, and I will have tried to flock the file 1000 times and it still won't work.

now I'm also very ignorant when it comes to this, and I've heard that flock will try continously until it gets the lock, (if the file is already locked)... is this true.. how could I go about doing this?

Thanks monks

In reply to The internals of flock() by Anonymous Monk

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