in reply to correct usage of flock?

Are the other programs that write to this file using flock also? flock is useless unless everything that writes to it uses it.

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Re: correct usage of flock?
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Jun 06, 2001 at 06:51 UTC
    yes, the append script uses flock, and is on same server. So I could check whether it's locked, and move it if it isn't? Seams like the best solution to me.

    cLive ;-)

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