"David Storrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (apparently may days ago): > Race condition: what if something deletes the file between the moment > that perl closes the file and the moment that it re-opens it? Is > there a cross-platform way to do an atomic reopen?
I'm not sure if you need to close it before you reopen it. You can usually open the file a second time before closing it. (the only issue would be if you were using mandatory locks, in which case you're probably a power-user using the FileHandle module, anyway). I don't know about the cross-platform aspect, but a similar scenario is that the file changes on disk while we've using it. In most modern editors, the user is asked: "file changed on disk: reload file? (Y/N)" when this happens. I'd like to think that we could arrange for an exception to be thrown (resumable, of course) if this happens when we've mapped a file into an object. Dave.
