use Fcntl; use POSIX qw(:unistd_h); ... # $fh -- open file handle # $lock is the structure that will be passed to fcntl(). # Note that values in the structure must be valid even # though they are not required for F_GETLK. If you just # zero-out everything fcntl() will return "Invalid argument" my $lock = pack 'sslli', F_UNLCK, SEEK_SET, 0, 0, 0; # Second parameter - 5, represents F_GETLK. I couldn't use # F_GETLK directly because it is mapped to 8 (F_GETLK64) and # I couldn't get the definition for flock64 (the equivalent # of "flock" for large files). The reason F_GETLK64 is # mapped to F_GETLK is because perl was compiled with # USE_LARGE_FILES. if (fcntl($fh, 5, $lock)){ my $lpid = (unpack 'sslli', $lock)[-1]; if ($lpid){ print "File is locked by PID: $lpid\n"; }else{ print "File is not locked\n"; } }else{ print STDERR "fcntl() failed: $!\n"; } ...