Cgi Counter

[Paul Rubin]

Nomad <nomad***@***freemail.absa.co.za> writes:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:59:04 -0700 (PDT), Neal Irwin
> ...> 
> fileWrite = open('count.txt', 'w')
> fileWrite.write(str(intHits))
> fileWrite.close
> ...
> Pretty simple, but it works...

Um, what happens if two requests (coming from different processes in
the web server) run the hit counter at the same time?  You need some
kind of interlocking for this to be reliable.