note Anonymous Monk <p><i> Is it a rookie mistake to believe the modules installed from CPAN? Or is the author of Dancer::Session::YAML a rookie? </i> <p> IIRC every tutorial on locking/open I've seen warns you about clobbering your files, and before you obtain a lock -- the idiom is open without clobber, obtain lock, trunc/seek/write as needed, close 1002848 1002920 3