[Off Topic]Could someone help?

hi yall, sorry to be off topic here, but flock is what has led me to linux. i've been experimenting with perl scripts on win32 os. and as yall know, win32 doesn't support file locking. i need some help with linux-mandrake 8.0 so i can get back to playing with perl. is anyone on the lis

flock for win32

file for a lock on win32(i know win32 doesn't support FLOCK) these post had a couple of contradictions about them... does anyone know a stable way to lock a file on win32? tx RDWest