Hello Kenneth,

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:34:54 -0800
Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi;
> 
>   This seems like a very simple concept, but I'm not getting it, so
> I'd like some help.
> 
>   So part of this is perl (not understanding readdir and/or glob well
> enough) and part of it is not getting the logic right.
> 
>   I have five perl scripts.
> 
>   I do not want any of them running concurrently as they will use a
> common resource which will cause corruption in the resource and will
> probably consume too much CPU and/or RAM/ and/or I/O.

Why not just use flock - see http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/flock.html ?

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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