Re: File content written by script and a called script

There is a race condition. seeking the end of file is not enough, you also need to flock the log file.

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Re^2: File content written by script and a called script by BioLion (Curate) on Sep 23, 2009 at 13:53 UTC
Further to this, OP may want to check out Writing to one file from multiple processes File locking What the flock!? Concurrency issues in file writing. and there is a lot of useful discussion in Best practices for modifying a file in place: q's about opening files, file locking, and using the rename function Just a something something...	[reply]