in reply to flock(), dodgy return?

I don't know much about locks, but for testing purposes please ensure that you are on a local partition, not one mounted via nfs or other network file systems.

NFS has notorious problems with locks, perhaps other network fs' have the same caveats.

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Re^2: flock(), dodgy return?
by danstuken (Novice) on Aug 01, 2007 at 14:20 UTC

    Definitely, played that game in a different life. *shudders*