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in thread TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Open a file

According to perlport, flock is available on WinNT (and later). You should be able to check Config for d_flock. 

> perl -MConfig -le "print $Config{d_flock}"
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No guarantees on how good that is for protecting against anything other than other Perl programs using flock. You might have to use Win32API::File for more direct control.

-xdg

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