Hello Everyone,

I just joined this forum and this is my first post.


I would like to know how can I impliment basic read/write locks in perl. I have a database (file) which can be accessed simultaneously but has to be locked while writing.


If there is no such support in perl, my next preference would be Bourne shell program.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Btw, I am a newbie in mutex,locks etc....

J.