flock

[Brian Shoemaker]

Starting very soon, we'll be changing from Linux to NT.

Currently, at the beginning of programs I use the following
use Fcntl qw(:flock);
then later in the scripts I use
flock(FILE, LOCK_EX);

The Perl 5 book I have says flock function doesn't work in Windows systems.

I don't want to create a lock file each time someone accesses a file and
then have to delete that lock.

What other options are available in Windows systems?

Brian Shoemaker