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in thread RFC: A new module to help avoid running multiple instances of the same script (via cron, for example)

That code was written pretty early. The suggestion you're making is one I started preaching a bit later.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

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Re^4: RFC: A new module to help avoid running multiple instances of the same script (via cron, for example)
by djp (Hermit) on Dec 06, 2009 at 08:41 UTC
    Excellent, I didn't think I could put one over you.