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in reply to Re: open FH, "|foo" under modperl2
in thread open FH, "|foo" under modperl2

perlfunc:flock says:

flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION
Calls flock(2), or an emulation of it, on FILEHANDLE.
Admittedly, I've never tried to flock anything other than a filehandle related to a physical file, however to be picky: flock _does_ work against filehandles.


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