THanks,
I tried substituting:
flock(WRITE_COMMENT, (LOCK_EX() || die("cannot lock comment file: $!")));
to no avail. THe file has been previously opened (for reading) and
then closed after, prior to being opened by another sub for
appending. The code I used to append worked as part of a stand
In addition to Randal's lucid explanation of your specific problem. I would
encourage you to also use taintmode flag and filter both subject and
filename as they are being used to create the file. The commented out
attempt to do this with $name shows that you basically may be aware of
this, bu
> "Francesco" == Francesco Scaglioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Francesco> flock WRITE_COMMENT, LOCK_EX || die "cannot lock comment file: $!";
This is not likely doing what you expect.
$ perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e 'use Fcntl qw(:flock); flock WRITE_COMMENT, LOCK_EX || die
"cannot lock com
Hi,
I have a script which collects a comment than should write it to a
file. Initialy several scripts did individual jobs but I am combining
them. the opening gets the details like this:
my $email = param( 'email') || '';
my $text= param( 'text' ) || '';
my $name
