Re: Module for better file locking. Name => "IO::Lock" ?

From: Ben Liddicott (ben_at_liddicott.com)
Date: 11/16/03 

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:02:38 +0000 (UTC)

IO::LockedFile just uses flock() locking.

My aim is to provide "better than flock" locking. 

-- 
Cheers,
Ben Liddicott
"Bob Crankshaft" <NO_chtodd@SPAM.core.com> wrote in message news:1mapah5453ms0$.1nfvcgy9sk5r1$.dlg@40tude.net...
> In the spirit of not reproducing the hard work of others unless necessary,
> I submit the following question to you:  What is wrong with IO::LockFile
> (http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-LockedFile-0.23.readme)?  I
> use it daily with Log::LogLite with a high level of success, although I do
> not know how it compares under Win32 or over NFS/SMB.  My experience has
> been Solaris on local filesystems with many threads writing one log
> simultaneously.

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