On 15-Aug-06, at 11:13 AM, eMaki wrote: > I don't personally ever use them in production code - I put data > in datafiles. Except this is a beautiful thing (on unix, at least): flock(DATA, 2 | 4) || die "currently running"; ... # perl script run in cron job here __DATA__ flock me baby Oh, and I just used __DATA__ in AxKit2. Oops :-)