On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This suggests that the forking operation (with demotion to a lower priority
> user) prevents flock from working properly on the inherited filehandle. Yet
> my Apache child processes can inherit other open filehandles and tied hashes
>
My Q today may be affected by Apache and/or Perl, so it seems
appropriate for this mailing list.
I've written a mod-perl module that needs mutual exclusion among
Apache child processes using the prefork MPM, so I decided to use a
file as a semaphore using Perl's 'flock'.
1. The mutual exc
