The bareword function call may not be a problem, if login.pl has been required before the code we see. I always use the parenthesis on function calls, though, just to make things clear.

I prefer to use the symbolic constants from Fcntl rather than the numbers, for the lock type argument to flock. It's just safer: 

use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :flock);    # from the Perl Cookbook
open(FILE, ">file.log") or die "Can't open and truncate file: $!";
flock(FILE, LOCK_EX) or die "Can't obtain exclusive lock: $!";

print FILE "$a:$b:$c\n";
close FILE;

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That'll clobber file.log, by the way. (if you don't want to do that, see mikfire's post here.)

The code for login.pl is similar, except it's LOCK_SH there.

In reply to (chromatic) RE: Re: flock problem by chromatic
in thread flock problem by Anonymous Monk

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