On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:47:09 +0200 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 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 ? > Some examples: http://perltricks.com/article/2/2015/11/4/Run-only-one-instance-of-a-program-at-a-time/ http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=590619 -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
