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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: locking dbm files
Keywords: dbmopen, dbmclose, flock
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Date: 14 Mar 91 22:56:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.205242.23220@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
?From the keyboard of evans@decvax.DEC.COM:
?This is certainly true.  dbm doesn't do locking.  To do record locking
?would be hard.  You could easily enough protect it with file
?locking though, but you should do this in your own code.

Record locking might well be impossible, dunno.

File locking is easy, unless, of course you are using NFS.

Another thing to do is run a database demon and ask it to do things for you.
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