On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:26 +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote: > You might be able to change this to creating (and filling) the files in > a tmp directory, and move them to the processing directory once they are > finished. Then there is no need to have those 0-bytes flag files. A bit > like how a maildir works.
In most systems I have worked on the /tmp directory is a different file system. Sometimes the time taken to move the file from one file system to another is significant enough to cause problems on a fully loaded system. This solution may break on systems under excessive load. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
