In general Perl terms, a flock persists until you release it, or you close the filehandle. The recommended approach is to close the filehandle and let Perl clean up for you. If you don't close explicitly, Perl will do that for you when the process exits.

With regard to sharing a lock with multiple scripts, you may as well not flock at all. What's the point? A lock is there to prevent concurrent access from corrupting your data or your file. If you allow more than once process to access a single lock at a time, you've subverted that.

I suspect there's a better way to accomplish the goal, but it's hard to see what the goal actually is. :)

In reply to Re: Can I Create A Persistent Flock Under CGI.pm? by chromatic
in thread Can I Create A Persistent Flock Under CGI.pm? by sierrathedog04

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