On Sep 24, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> The PerlCookbook seemed to indicate that mkdir is an atomic operation (both
> checks if the directory exists and creates it if it does not), so a locking
> mechanism based on mkdir would take care of this issue
> presumably. Removing the lock is a matter of removing the directory.
>
> However, (maybe this is right ... i dont have it here with me), the
> PerlCookbook was saying this within the context of an NFS locking mechanism
> I think. So, if mkdir is not truly atomic under Perl's implementation for
> Win32 then that would screw that over. Would anyone here know off the top
> of their head?
be careful, mkdir isn't really atomic under nfs.
jim
