Well, no, it isn't. It's my storage array, and I'm being asked to test locking functionality. I know locking in general (and NFS specifically) are a bit of a 'fuzzy area' when it comes to file locking. And there's huge caveats on the relative interoperability. I'm trying to avoid specific perl modules, simply because this _should_ be language independent. I don't mind knocking up my test cases in C, if that's necessary - but I thought it _should_ be possible using perl built in hooks into C calls.