file locking

[Michael S.]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:47, Paul Fenwick wrote:

> If you're using a regular filesystem, then the usual method
> of file-locking is using Perl's inbuilt "flock" function
> ("perldoc -f flock" for details):

There are also at least two modules, File::Flock and LockFile::Simple. 
LockFile::Simple is more complicated.  Storable (recent versions
thereof) also locking versions of store and retrieve, which are bloody
handy.




Michael

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