The object is also a valid filehandle. So you just call: 
flock($fh, $mode) or die "Cannot flock file in $mode: $!";

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If this bothers you, you can just add the following: 
package FileHandle;
use Carp;

sub lock {
  my $self = shift;
  flock($self, 8) or confess("Cannot lock file: $!");
}

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and now you can just call: 
$fh->lock();

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Note that I did not create an unlock method. That is intentional. Files should never be unlocked. Instead you close or drop the filehandle, and they will be unlocked for you by the OS.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: flock with FileHandle.pm? by tilly
in thread flock with FileHandle.pm? by DBX

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