Re^2: How to make sure that non-Perl programs will respect Perl's file locking?

[Perl Mouse]

You want a mandatory lock that the system enforces.

No you don't. At least, not in general. Just suppose you have mandatory file locking. Consider a (user) program that opens /etc/passwd and acquires a read lock. You can't prevent that as /etc/passwd needs to be readable by all.

As long as the program keeps the lock, noone could acquire an exclusive lock on /etc/passwd, so no modifications to the user of the machine are possible.

Believe me, you don't want system-wide mandatory locking.

[brian_d_foy]

I never said anything about a read lock. I don't think a read lock would do any good here. :)