> Personally I would suspect Windows in this case. I don't know about > XP, but Windows 95/98/ME did not have a working flock. If XP is based > on the NT code, it may not have that problem. Even so, I would try > testing that first, or maybe asking about it on Win32 perl mailing > list.
XP is based on the NT Kernel, and should have a working flock. I believe In recent versions of 5.6.1 flock() is emulated on the 9x kernel as well. However this doesn't mean mod_perl supports it, but I'm pretty sure (98%?) Activestate and Win32 perl does. I've never flock-ed in my life (never had a need) but I have been tracking Perl and Apache under Win32 for quite a while so take all this with a grain of salt. -Chris
