in reply to Exclusive open for append

Where do you see the “exclusive” part? You didn’t flock the file, after all.

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Re^2: Exclusive open for append
by gri6507 (Deacon) on Nov 18, 2005 at 16:35 UTC
    D'oh. All I needed was flock(LOG, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB) || die "cannot lock $logfile: $!\n";. Thanks.
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