Is Flock supported in MacPerl? use DB_File; use Fcntl ':flock'; use strict; tie and open , blah blah... unless (flock (DB_FH, LOCK_SH | LOCK_NB)) { print "$$: CONTENTION; can't read during write update! Waiting for read lock ($!) ...."; unless (flock (DB_FH, LOCK_SH)) { die "flock: $!" } } print "$$: Read lock granted\n"; tells me: # The flock() function is unimplemented. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch