On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > >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.
Nope, just plain luck. Keep it running long enough without locking and you will eventually have a corrupted log file. -sam
