Prepended From conversation with sulfericacid and other posts you'll note that zie is already using a dbm style database - SDBM if I recall correctly. So I'm suggesting this as a work-alike (except better).

When I first started out I was using DB_File::Lock (its documentation has pointers to Tie::DB_Lock and Tie::DB_LockFile). I've since gotten a clue and if I need to do this task then I use BerkeleyDB and use its concurrant locking system. This sort of task is something that is fully in the let-someone-else handle-it-if-you-can category.

Added It occurred to me that an example would be a good idea.

tie %hash, 'BerkeleyDB::Hash',
    -Filename => 'foo.db',
    -Flags => DB_CREATE | DB_INIT_CDB | DB_MPOOL;

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Easy eh? Note that BerkeleyDB's locking mechanism uses flock so NFS users (probably not sulfericacid) have to use one of the other modules mentioned above.

In reply to Re: flocking databases by diotalevi
in thread flocking databases by sulfericacid

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