From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-05-29T03:30:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ensuring only one instance of a script is running

On May 25, 11:43 am, "Xavier Noria" <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Joel VanderWerf
>
> <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > DanielBergerwrote:
>
> >> DATA.flock(File::LOCK_EX)
>
> > Google seems to think it's original, FWIW.
>
> Locking DATA has been used in Perl for a long time.

Apparently so, because it was a use.perl blog entry that gave me the
idea. For whatever reason I never came across that idiom even while I
was mainly a Perl guy. :)

Regards,

Dan