Hi, I agree, though I think we can do better than provide a few example for perl and python -- we could provide a library to do file locking. (I have a general purpose mutex based class library (I also have a C implementation) for POSIX and DCE Threads, though I'll have to see if I can contribute it [copyright has to be looked at]).
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