in reply to How do I kill a stuck lock on a file?

Are you sure your open succeeded? It looks like you are trying to flock on a closed file handle.

Abigail

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Re: Re: How do I kill a stuck lock on a file?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19 UTC
    Yes, the open() succeeds because I have:

    open(...) or die "..."; flock(...) or die "...";