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+File locking in Perl is usually done using the flock function.
+Unfortunately, this only allows locks on whole files and is often
+implemented in terms of the flock system function which has some
+shortcomings and slightly different behaviour than fcntl.
+Using this module file locking via fcntl(2) can be done