use strict; use warnings; use threads; use feature 'say' ; use Fcntl qw(:flock); my $file_path = ">>/tmp/test.txt"; open(FILE, $file_path); for(0..9) { threads->new(\&worker, $_); } $_->join for threads->list; sub worker { my $x = shift; my $locked; open(my $thread_lock,$file_path); $locked = flock($thread_lock, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB ); if( $locked ) { say "$x: lock acquired"; sleep 9-$x; } else { say "$x: cannot acquire lock"; }; if($locked) { flock( $thread_lock, LOCK_UN ); print "$x: lock released\n"; } return; }