Re: File locking question.

2001-07-29 Thread Michael Fowler
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:15:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > #use strict; > use warnings; > > my $file = 'data'; > my $TIMEOUT = 10; > sub LOCK_SH { 1 }; > sub LOCK_EX { 2 }; > sub LOCK_UN { 8 }; Do not manually define these constants. It will work, but it's b

File locking question.

2001-07-28 Thread h1kv27q1mkye6001
I am trying to use L Stein's file locking subroutine from 'Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm' for a light duty cgi program I am writing. I'd like to use 'use strict', but I can't get perl to agree with the return at the end of the subroutine. (See return below) Here is a sample program: