On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:47:09 +0200 > Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > >> Hello Kenneth, >> >> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:34:54 -0800 >> Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi; >> > >> > This seems like a very simple concept, but I'm not getting it, so >> > I'd like some help. >> > >> > So part of this is perl (not understanding readdir and/or glob >> > well enough) and part of it is not getting the logic right. >> > >> > I have five perl scripts. >> > >> > I do not want any of them running concurrently as they will use a >> > common resource which will cause corruption in the resource and will >> > probably consume too much CPU and/or RAM/ and/or I/O. >> >> Why not just use flock - see >> http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/flock.html ? >> > > Some examples: > > http://perltricks.com/article/2/2015/11/4/Run-only-one-instance-of-a-program-at-a-time/ > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=590619
Thanks, I think I will give a good hard look at flock and the links are helpful. It looks like a better solution overall. Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
