[LA.pm] January Meeting and flock question

[Robert Spier]

> What happened to the January Meeting?

Nobody suggested a cuisine.

> I'm writing a script that requires locking a file before writing to it, 
> and I decided to check CPAN to see if there are any goodies to take care 
> of this for me.  A search for 'flock' yielded:

I would probably just use the flock builtin.  See perlfunc.

> Anyone have any experience with any of the above, and want to recommend 
> one?  Incidentally, this is why I think a CPAN wiki would be neat.  :)

Have you seen cpanratings.perl.org?