If apache is killing the cgi/perl process with a signal such as SIGINT, then the perl garbage collector may not be running, so it will never run close(FILE) (or equivilent) which would automatically unflock the file. What you need to do is eithier tell your program to ignore the signal or give it something to do when it recives the signal. Perl's signal handlers aren't reliable, so you should possibly go with the first method. 

$SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE'; # ignore signal and keep on going, but without a
+ connection to your user
$SIG{INT} = sub { die "Received SIGINT\n" }; # normal exit with an err
+or

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I have no idea if doing that would solve your problem, but fiddling around with signal handlers in apache and on the command line might answer that question.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: flock, not unflocking by repson
in thread flock, not unflocking by kael

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