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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: locking dbm files
Keywords: dbmopen, dbmclose, flock
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.214341.7374@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:43:41 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.205242.23220@convex.com> <125585@uunet.UU.NET> <21131@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <21131@shlump.nac.dec.com> evans@decvax.DEC.COM writes:

>Let's assume for the moment that I'm not using NFS (even though I am in reality,
>and to make things even worse, locking is done because many machines want write
>access to this dbm database).

Gdbm seems to include some locking code - does anyone know if it is
reliable?  (Maybe this application would be a good test...)

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us