On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This suggests that the forking operation (with demotion to a lower priority > user) prevents flock from working properly on the inherited filehandle. Yet > my Apache child processes can inherit other open filehandles and tied hashes > from the original process, and do I/O via them just fine, without having to > re-open them.
I don't think that's correct. If you're sharing read/write filehandles between processes and you haven't had problems, you're just getting lucky. You need to open them in each child process. - Perrin
