Ha ha ha ha,
I really am quite naive sometimes, and it generally shows a mile off when trying out something new that I've never bothered with before.
I had a few telnet windows open to run the script below and test out flock on this sequence file.

I was rather surprised and then just had to laugh when the first script finished b4 i had time to ALT-TAB to the next window :). I knew file access was fast but thats far out.

peals of laughter at my use of flock also welcome :) 

for (1..1000) {
    print "Next number : ", xCount::next_num(), "\n";
}

package xCount;

sub next_num {
    if (open(ON, "+<seqfile")){
        flock ON, 2;
        $ordernum = <ON>;
        $ordernum += 1;
        seek ON, 0, 0;
        print ON $ordernum;
        flock ON, 8;
        close(ON);
    }
    return $ordernum;
}

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