C.DeRykus wrote: > There's a tiny race condition at this point since the pidfile still > hasn't been created. What if another cron fires off during this > very short window, doesn't see the pidfile, then slips through... > Or, maybe even the shorter window between pidfile creation > and its content being written is the problem. Perhaps an > atomic 'flock' on the pidfile would be a good idea to eliminate > the latter window...
This can be avoided by using the O_EXCL flag with sysopen, at least on the OSes that support it. See `perldoc -f sysopen` for details. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
