Re^2: Checking for multiple instances

That is very cool. Not to pester but would you give a snippet (or point to one) showing it in action?

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•Re^3: Checking for multiple instances by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 24, 2004 at 22:21 UTC
I can't find my working example right now, but from memory, something like this: `#!/usr/bin/perl use Fcntl qw(LOCK_EX LOCK_NB); flock DATA, LOCK_EX \| LOCK_NB or die "Already executing!"; ... rest of code ... # do not remove this __END__! __END__` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Checking for multiple instances by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 25, 2004 at 06:41 UTC
Thanks, that's plenty, I'm sure. I was just a'scared there might be a trick to it that was different from vanilla flock'ing.	[reply]