You don't need to get that from a database! All you havve to do is put a
lock on a file read the file, increment it write the file and take the lock
off, easy!
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I want to write a CGI in perl that when called, grabs a number from a
MySQL db or a file,
increments it, writes the number back out, and then returns a GIF with
that number. I want
to have 10 separate GIFs,