Re: Corrupted Data

From: Kevin Pfeiffer (pfeiffer_at_iu-bremen.de)
Date: 10/30/03 

To: beginners@perl.org
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:05:20 +0100

In article <185.225b34a9.2cd27e26@aol.com>, Jimstone77@aol.com wrote:

> I'm having problems with corrupted data about every month or so. The
> problem
> seems to be that the New file sometimes writes only about half the old
> file. I was under the impression that flock would prevent the data from
> being corrupted. Can anyone tel me what I am doing wrong, and what I
> should be doing instead?
[...]
> open(NEW,$new) or die "Can't Open File: $!";
[...]
> print NEW $_;

> Is there something inherently wrong with doing it this way?

Printing to a file handle that was opened for reading? 

-- 
Kevin Pfeiffer

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