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in thread flock(), dodgy return?

I suspect alarm will do the trick if a timeout is desired, at least on a unix host.

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Re^3: flock(), dodgy return?
by danstuken (Novice) on Aug 01, 2007 at 14:38 UTC

    Yeah but that brings in more complexity than is really warrented in this situation, no?

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