On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:10:02PM -0400, Ian Langworth wrote:
fork() returns the child process id in the parent and 0 in the child,
so
> fork and do {
This block executes in the parent process.
> };
The remaining code executes in the child, which will have no lock after the
fork on systems like Solaris where Perl implements the lock using fcntl.
I think you want fork or do.
> sleep 1;
> print ONE "line 2\n";
> print ONE "line 3\n";
> flock ONE, LOCK_UN;
> close ONE;
--
Jason
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