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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion
Keywords: perl file learn suggest
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Date: 21 Jan 91 23:07:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jan21.214453.25039@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
>:Another thing perl needs is the ability to create lock files. Sysopen?
>
>flock() is there, as is lockf() disguised as fcntl().

Pardon me. I didn't make myself clear. I need to create lock files,
not lock files already created. I meant open(path,O_CREAT|O_EXCL,0666);
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
	Close the gap of the dark year in between