On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jim Winstead wrote:
> 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.
> be careful, mkdir isn't really atomic under nfs.
But NFS is Not a File System, so this doesn't matter :)
The other possible atomic operation that things use for locking
(emacs/netsacpe etc) is symlink() but you don't get that on win32, so not
a great suggestion here, but you don't get NFS on win32 either.
MBM (wittering before disappearing off to YAPC)
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