On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:51:13PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes: > >> A better option if you need to use fcntl locking is to write an XS >> module. > >I'm amazed that something like this doesn't already exist, [...] So was I, although to be frank I can't think of a case where I've ever needed partial locking, so flock is more than sufficient. Presumably the same is the case for others. --bod