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 lock($filename, 'shared');

 lock($filename, undef, 'nonblocking');

 lock($filename, 'shared', 'nonblocking');

 unlock($filename);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Lock files using the flock() call.  The file to be locked must 
already exist.  This is a very thing interface.

=head1 AUTHOR

David Muir Sharnoff, <muir@idiom.com>