in reply to Re: Re: Re: Mysterious Disapperance of file contents
in thread Mysterious Disapperance of file contents
don't unlock the counterfile/lockfile, just close them. this flushes the buffers and releases locks and closes in a fairly atomic fashion....that's another bug in the original code.
Modern versions of Perl flush file buffers before locking or unlocking a file. This is even documented.
Abigail
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