What DBM are you use ing?

• DB_File => Berkeley DB
• GDBM_File => GNU DB
• SDBM_File => err ... the standard DBM? ( comes w/ Perl )

In any case, read perldoc [name of DBM you're using] to get the skinny on locking.

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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