Hello Monks, I'm hoping this isn't too stupid a question. I have been trying to test (for a new system) locking files on NFS. My problem is - I'm having a real difficulty untangling what is a good way of accomplishing it - I've tracked down fcntl, and flock.

So is anyone able to give me a pointer in how this is done 'right'? All I really need is to be able to create and lock a test file (twice, so I can check if the lock is 'working'), and can run on multiple instances/hosts. I am aware that this is implementation dependent - but this is as much to test if I _can_ on our implementation, as anything else.

Thus far, I've got as my tests:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Fcntl qw ( :flock ); 

open ( my $lock_this, '>', 'lockfile_flock' ) or die $!;

print "Enter to lock\n"; <>; 
print "Requesting EX lock\n"; 
flock ( $lock_this, LOCK_EX ); 
print "Lock acquired\n"; 
print "Enter to release\n"; <>; 
flock ( $lock_this, LOCK_UN ); 
print "Lock released\n";

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I'm trying to do the same with fcntl, but am being flummoxed a bit by references to pack and flags. Is anyone able to give me an example of how using "fcntl" to lock a file is supposed to look in perl?

In reply to NFS locking with Fcntl by Preceptor

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