Struppi: Wie ist das jetzt genau mit flock?

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Oder noch besser die antwort in der Perlfaq:

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I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this?

Didn't anyone ever tell you web-page hit counters were useless? They don't count number of hits, they're a waste of time, and they serve only to stroke the writer's vanity. Better to pick a random number. It's more realistic.

Anyway, this is what you can do if you can't help yourself.

use Fcntl ':flock';
sysopen(FH, "numfile", O_RDWR|O_CREAT) or die "can't open numfile: $!";
flock(FH, LOCK_EX) or die "can't flock numfile: $!";
$num = <FH> || 0;
seek(FH, 0, 0) or die "can't rewind numfile: $!";
truncate(FH, 0) or die "can't truncate numfile: $!";
(print FH $num+1, "\n") or die "can't write numfile: $!";

Perl as of 5.004 automatically flushes before unlocking

flock(FH, LOCK_UN) or die "can't flock numfile: $!";
close FH or die "can't close numfile: $!";

Here's a much better web-page hit counter:
$hits = int( (time() - 850_000_000) / rand(1_000) );
If the count doesn't impress your friends, then the code might. :-)

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struppi.