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in thread correct usage of flock?

Except I have only one process, set to append, in a directory it has permission to create files in, so that should be OK, yes?

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Re: Re: correct usage of flock?
by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Jun 06, 2001 at 23:29 UTC
    It worked for me in Mandrake Linux 8. I took your script and moved the unlock to the very last statement. The single process was able to delete a file while it had an exclusive lock on it.