I've super searched, I've google searched, I've read FAQS, and I cannot find a solution.

I'm helping to write an internal tool (portability is not very important) that needs to lock some log files.
flock, lockd, and sysopen all do not support NFS, at least from the docs I've read.

I work for a large corporation so the 2 most typical answers do not apply, (don't use NFS, and re-compile Perl with some flags to make flock work using fcntl).

Using modules is a little touchy as well, if I can find a simple solution that would work better (cross site issues of installing modules, it's a nightmare).

From what I've read fcntl should do what I want (NFS is up to date and Linux boxes were running on got upgraded to 2.4 not too long ago).

I have not been able to find a good example of using fcntl to lock a file. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

In reply to locking a NFS file by Helter

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