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Monday May 17, 2004
10:05 AM
Scary code of the day
sub lock_retrieveFH {
my $datafile = sprintf ("/usr/bin/unzip -p %s |", FILE);
open my $pipe, $datafile or die print $!, $/;
flock($pipe,LOCK_EX);
return $pipe;
}
*shudder*
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"That's not right...that's not even wrong" (Score:1)
1) What is FILE supposed to stringify to? It looks like a filehandle, but that won't give the filename. I'll be generous and assume we have "use constant FILE=>'filename.zip'" in there somewhere.
2) Even assuming FILE stringifies, why sprintf?
3) Locking a pipe? No other process can compete for access. Mistaken attempt to lock the underlying file, or very strange attempt at inter-thread locking?
I really don't want to see the rest of that code.