Hello Monks !

I've just been given what seems like a simple enough problem, but I'm hoping some of you better travelled Perl hackers might be able to give me some advice or problems that you might have come across.

Basically I need to write a logger. It will be taking input from a serial port and dumping its data out to a file. The only problem I can see is that another process might want to look at that log file every so often, so I need to flush to the log every so often.

Data might come from the serial port very quickly - so I'm wondering how I prevent buffers of various kinds getting full.

What kind of things should I look out for ? Or is there a module (I'm almost cringing right now because I haven't yet looked) that will do all this without me writing a line of code in anger....

anything very much appreciated. ** off to check the wonderland; CPAN.

In reply to Persistent logging... by salonmonk

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