Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Problems? Is your data what you think it is?
 
PerlMonks  

comment on

( [id://3333]=superdoc: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??
You've commented out "seek" but you say using "sysseek" was a problem. "seek" will not work with syswrite, you must use sysseek. If you were using sysseek, how did it break things (i.e. compared to how they are broken without it)?

If you are going to sort the output anyway, one way of handling this might be to have each writer send output to it's own file, then concatenate/sort the files all at the same time at the end.

If you are writing output lines one at a time, you may be able to just open the file in append mode and write that way, without locks. I think this is OS/stdlib dependent so YMMV. UPDATE: Now that I think about it, this last suggestion just sounds bad. I forgot that I always use locks even in this case since there is no guarantee that the perl/OS/stdlib/whatever will support this in the future even on a machine I believe works this way today.


In reply to Re: What the flock!? Concurrency issues in file writing. by bluto
in thread What the flock!? Concurrency issues in file writing. by suaveant

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
    <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
  • Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
  • Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.
Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others contemplating the Monastery: (6)
As of 2024-04-23 18:15 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found