I'm not quite sure what while I do all of the reading/writing I need to do means, but the code would look something like this:
use Fcntl; #contains codes to use for flock
...
open(STORE,">$storable_file") || die "Could not open $storable_file: $
+!\n";
flock STORE,LOCK_EX;
store_fd \%hash,\*STORE;
... # code code code
flock STORE,LOCK_UN;
close(STORE); # closing file also unlocks it, but I prefer explicit un
+locking

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In reply to Re: File locking and Storable by matija
in thread File locking and Storable by jpfarmer

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