Re: Will these functions for use with Storable properly lock my file?

[davido]

Storable supports advisory locking out of the box:

# Advisory locking
use Storable qw(lock_store lock_nstore lock_retrieve)
lock_store \%table, 'file';
lock_nstore \%table, 'file';
$hashref = lock_retrieve('file');

This is from the Storable POD. Could you use these tools to handle locking for you?

[nysus]

I had initially tried using the locking functions provided with Storable. Maybe I wasn't using them properly but the processes stomped all over one another. That's when I did some searching and decided to try out a semaphore file instead.