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Re: RFC: A new module to help avoid running multiple instances of the same script (via cron, for example)by tokpela (Chaplain) |
on Dec 03, 2009 at 10:25 UTC ( [id://810796]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I would call this a Mutex and would name accordingly. Maybe something like Process::Mutex? There are a few mutex implementations already on CPAN. I have used the Win32::Mutex module a bit in my development. If you are going to create a generic module, I would provide different solutions depending on the OS. The above solutions using flock should work well on *nix systems while the Win32::Mutex provides an interface for Windows.
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