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works for me????? (Score:1)

by ddick (5726) on 2008.05.21 0:58 (#62958) Journal

#! /usr/bin/perl use Fcntl(); sleep 2; print "Locking....\n"; unless (flock(DATA, Fcntl::LOCK_EX())) { die("Failed to lock:$!"); } print "Locked.....\n"; sleep 5; __DATA__

works for me on an XP virtual machine with strawberry perl.

when doesn't it work?

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