At 10:30 PM 06/10/02 -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: >On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Sergey Rusakov wrote: > >> open(ERRORLOG, '>>/var/log/my_log'); >> print ERRORLOG "some text\n"; >> close ERRORLOG; >> >> This bit of code runs in every apache child. >> I worry abount concurent access to this log file under heavy apache load. Is >> there any problems on my way? > >You are correct to worry. You should use flock() to prevent your log file >from becoming corrupted. See "perldoc -f flock()" for more details.
Maybe it's a matter of volume. Or size of string written to the log. But I don't flock, and I keep the log file open between requests and only reopen if stat() shows that the file was renamed. So far been lucky. -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
