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From: evans@decvax.DEC.COM (Marc Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: locking dbm files
Keywords: dbmopen, dbmclose, flock
Message-ID: <21090@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 17:30:58 GMT
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Organization: Synergytics
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I am using the dbm (ndbm too) facilities provided by perl. It would appear
that the file(s) opened by dbmopen are not locked and therefore data can be
lost if more then one process attempts to modify the database at the same
time. It would also appear that this may be caused by the library functions
on the host, not perl itself.

Has anybody else had this type of problem, and if so, how did you go about
performing locking?

Thanks in advance - Marc

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