You're going to kick yourself, you need to change "function;" to "function();"(We've all done this at one time or another).

You also shouldn't use an exclusive lock when reading from a file, you should use a shared lock.
This is how I got the code to work. 

#start of login.cgi

  open(FILE, ">file.log");
  flock(FILE, 2); # 2 is an exclusive lock
  print FILE "$a:$b:$c\n";
  close FILE;

  #call function
  function ();

#  return 0;
  #end of login.cgi
  -------------------
  ;#start of login.pl

  sub function
  {
  open(FILE, "<file.log");
  flock(FILE, 1); # 1 is a shared lock

  $a = <FILE>;
  print "line: $a\n";
  close FILE;
  #end of login.pl
  1;
}

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In reply to Re: flock problem by c-era
in thread flock problem by Anonymous Monk

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