#!/usr/bin/perl use Fcntl qw(:DEFAULT :flock); use strict; my $FH; my $fn = 'flockdata'; my $test_data = (join('','a'..'z')."\n") x 10; #print length($test_data),"\n"; sysopen($FH,$fn,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT); for(1..10) { last unless fork(); } for(1..20) { die "FLOCK ERROR\n" unless flock($FH,LOCK_EX); die "SYSWRITE ERROR\n" unless syswrite($FH,$test_data,length($test_data)) == \ length($test_data); flock($FH,LOCK_UN); } close $FH;