Dave Lerner wrote:
The scripts lock the data files individually:
open and lock file #1
access file #1
close file #1
open and lock file #2
access file #2
close file #2
If any of the files are interdependent, this could result in files
getting corrupted, if multiple users are running the scripts
concurrently.
I'm not sure of what you mean exactly by interdependent, but I'd guess
they are not. Each time a file is opened for writing, all info that will
be put into it has already been stored in a Perl variable.
But this is an area I don't know very much about; I found "the lock
model" in another script. So if you have some knowledge about it, I'd
appreciate if you could take a closer look. For instance, you could
check the "new site" or "edit site" routine, since sites.db is the file
which would be most difficult to fix if it got corrupted.
/ Gunnar