I thank all of thoese who have helped me in the past. I love this site and I hope that I can "give back" as soon as I know alittle bit more about perl. Anyways I have a problem with perl. Here are a gist of my problem. 

#start of login.cgi

open(FILE, "file.log");
flock(FILE, LOCK_EX);
print FILE "$a:$b:$c\n";
close FILE;

#call function
function;

return 0;
#end of login.cgi
-------------------
;#start of login.pl

sub function
{
open(FILE, "file.log");
flock(FILE, LOCK_EX);

$a = <FILE>;
print "line: $a\n";
close FILE;
#end of login.pl
1;

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The first open, flock, print, and close work fine. Then when I call function, it is able to open the file, but the flock fails. If I don't flock the file, I'm able to read the first line from the file and print it. But I do need to lock the file. Am I correc to assume that the close in login.cgi will unlock the file? Can anyone help. Thanks, Michael

In reply to flock problem by Anonymous Monk

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