in reply to Strange flock results?

Maybe output buffering is the problem here. Try to set $| or autoflush to a true value on your file handles.

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Re: Strange flock results?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 27, 2004 at 13:49 UTC
    Ever since at least 5.004, perl flushes filehandles before (un)locking a file. See perl5004delta.pod.

    Abigail

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