> "Mark" == Mark Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> Hi,
Mark> Sorry, I don't understand. What's my breakage? Should I not use "flock"?
You should use "flock", but properly. :)
google for "site:stonehenge.com flock" for many examples of how to do it right.
--
Randal L. Schwartz - Sto
Hey Mark,
I doubt any mortal brain could follow all the various permutations of
clients hitting your files and trying to lock them while some other
client is doing the same. But here's one way your data could get
hosed: one client reads the file in between the time another client
opened it f
Hi,
Sorry, I don't understand. What's my breakage? Should I not use "flock"?
Thanks,
Mark
Mark> open (FILE, "> $pathtodatafile") || die ("Cannot open file");
Mark> flock (FILE, 2);
0wn3d!
That's your breakage.
Once in a blue mooon, you'll kill your entire data this way
> "Mark" == Mark Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> open (FILE, "> $pathtodatafile") || die ("Cannot open file");
Mark> flock (FILE, 2);
0wn3d!
That's your breakage.
Once in a blue mooon, you'll kill your entire data this way.
--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services,
Hi,
Here's a quick question. This doesn't have anything to do with perl on
my mac, but just a perl question. I have a a small script that simply
increases a number by 1, when it is run, then writes the changes back
to the file. I am using it to check how many people come to the site by
way of
