You could do it with a flat file. There's lots of ways. One script I had used a simple DBM file and went something like this (hope this is cut down right):
{
use Fcntl qw(:flock);
my %h;
my $size=5;
sub ringopen {
open(F, ">ring.lock") || die;
flock(F, LOCK_EX);
dbmopen(%h, "ring", 0666) || die;
}
sub ringclose { dbmclose(%h); close(F); }
sub ringadd {
ringopen();
local $_=$h{next};
delete $h{$_-$size} if (defined $_);
$h{$h{next}++}=$_[0];
ringclose();
}
sub ringdump {
ringopen();
my @a=sort { $a <=> $b }
grep /^\d+$/, keys %h;
@a=@h{@a};
ringclose();
return @a;
}
}
And you used it like this:
for(0..9, 'a'..'z') {
ringadd($_);
}
print ringdump();
To initialize the ring buffer, remove the ring* files.
YMMV, TIMTOWDI, etc..
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