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From: Till Plewe <till@score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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How can I control the output of processes (forked from a single
process) all writing to the same file?

f{un,}lockfile(file) seems to work unless file=stdout.

Are there any other simple methods I can try?

- Till

PS. I am using  5.4-PRERELEASE i386 SMP-GENERIC