I don't think you do for you case. Try the following code, running multiple copies at the same time:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

my $file = 'd:\log_test';
my $version = $ARGV[0]?$ARGV[0]:'0';
my $count = 0;

while ($count++ < 1000)
{
  open OUT, ">>$file" or die "Could not open file $count\n$!\n";
  print OUT time," $version lots of useless text $count\n";
  close OUT;
}

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On my NT machine (P233) 1000 is enough, and takes a few seconds to run. On a solaris machine, 10,000 is needed to give me a few seconds to start multiple copies.<PR> One interesting result of this program is that the times are not necesarily in order. But since all you are doing is writing to the end of the file, the OS seems to take care of it all.
W

In reply to Re: Do I need to lock log files? by Wafath
in thread Do I need to lock log files? by Anonymous Monk

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