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I think the canonical way to do this (in a script not a module) is

use Fcntl ':flock'; # import LOCK_* constants
INIT{
  open  *{0} 
        or die "What!? $0:$!";
  flock *{0}, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB
    or die "$0 is already running somewhere!\n";
}
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It has one disadvantage that on at least one system and on one version of Perl (AS635 on Win2k) you won't see any error message or script generated message as Perl will fail (quietly!?) if you try to run the script while it is already running.

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demerphq

_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}

In reply to Re: Make a perl script self aware... by demerphq
in thread Make a perl script self aware... by neuroball

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