From: Travis Whitton Date: 2003-07-26T04:02:12+09:00 Subject: Re: Confused about locking a file via file.flock(File::LOCK_EX) >> Flock only works within the same process. > > Not true. You can have many different programs in many different > languages running as independent processes all using flock to > manage access to one or more files. I knew this. I guess I must have smoked a little too much crack this morning... Time to go fsck my brain. Anyhoo, thanks for the correction. - Travis Whitton p.s., kidding about the crack.