Re: Timing out flock (fwd)

[rspier@speed.seas.upenn.edu (Robert Spier)]

BV> Will this work this way?  

Have you tried it?

It looks like a normal use of alarm for timing things out, although I
didn't analyze it fully.  But note, that use of _any_ signals can
cause problems in perl.  This simple use should be safe.

But it seems there is a bigger problem here - 
    1- Why is your CGI blocking?  Might this be somewhere you need a
database with row level locking?
    2- Why is it blocking for so long that it is causing a problem.
Exclusion primitives (locks) should be held for as short a time as
possible.




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