Are you sure it works like that? I tried the example below and it worked fine? Am I missing something? 
perl -e 'open(FILE,"./syslog") or die "Cannot open syslog: $!\n"; slee
+p 1000000000;' &

then

perl -i -p del.pl ./syslog

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This worked fine, next I tried this: 

perl -e 'use Fcntl;open(FILE,"./syslog") or die "Cannot open syslog: $
+!\n";flock(FILE,LOCK_EX); sleep 1000000000;' &

then

perl -i -p del.pl ./syslog

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A 'ps' both before and after the -i command showed the opening of the local syslog file active. Both with and without the flock worked fine. Please let me know if I am missing or misunderstanding something about the file locking?

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in thread cleaning up logs by ddrumguy

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