John Gaughan wrote:
> attempt to flock() fails. One other thing. I'm not sure it this is normal
> behaviour for the libc version of flock(), but if the file has been locked
> already, perl's flock() appears to wait for the first lock to be released
> and then locks the file, rather than returning an error.
According to the flock(2) manpage this is correct. If you want
nonblocking behaviour use LOCK_NB and flock will fail with errno =
EWOULDBLOCK
Donnchadh
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