In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm having problems with corrupted data about every month or so. The problem
>seems to be that the New file sometimes writes only about half the old file.
>I was under the impression that flock would prevent the data from being
>corrupted. Can anyone tel me what I am doing wrong, and what I should be doing
>instead?
>
>
> open(OLD,">$old") or die "Can't Open File: $!";
> flock OLD, 2;
> open(NEW,$new) or die "Can't Open File: $!";
> flock NEW, 2;
> while (<OLD>) {
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Why don't you post the actual code since this obviously isn't it...
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