P.V.Sankar wrote: > Hi, > > I have been facing a crazy problem from the past 1 year. My counter in > perl script gets reset very often. For giving some serial number, i > initiated a text counter, let us say counter.txt and incrementing it in my > perl script. Randomly it gets reset very often. Any idea why this is > happening.
Could be a race condition with two instances of the script trying to access the counter at once. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
