[MacPerl-WebCGI] cgi scripts and associated files

[jakal <jakem@camtech.net.au>]

I have read many postings to this mailing list about wether or not files
used by CGI scripts need to be locked and about what actually happens when
a perl CGI script gets two simultaneous requests. However, I am unable to
determine what the consesus is. So my questions are these.

1. Do the files that my CGI script writes to and reads from need to be
locked whilst I am reading/writing them - How do I do this?

2. What happens when my CGI script recieves 2 simultaneous requests? Is
this platform specific? i.e. do the same scripts running on Unix handle
things differently?

I have spent a long time writing some quite large perl programs which make
frequent use of various text files and I have now realised that I should
really have sought the answers to these questions before I wrote all my
code, but that's life (mine anyway) :)

Thanks,

Jake MacMullin



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