                            IO::LockedFile

  Copyright (c) 2001 EM-TECH (www.em-tech.net) & Rani Pinchuk.  
  All rights reserved.  
  This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

DESCRIPTION
  
  The `IO::LockedFile' class gives us the same interface of the
  IO::File class to files with the unique difference that those files
  are locked using the flock mechanism. 

  Example for the use of the class:

     use IO::LockedFile;

     # create new locked file object. $file will hold a file handle.
     # if the file is already locked, the method will not return until the
     # file is unlocked
     my $file = new IO::LockedFile(">locked1.txt");

     # when we close the file - it become unlocked.
     $file->close();

PREREQUISITES

  IO::File 
  Fcntl

INSTALLATION

  Follow the standard installation procedure for Perl modules, which is to
  type the following commands:

          perl Makefile.PL
          make
          make test
          make install

  You'll probably need to do the last as root.  

AUTHOR NOTES

  This class is used for quite a long time in our company
  EM-TECH. Yet, it is very new in CPAN. If there are problems,
  suggestions or comments - please email me.

Rani Pinchuk
rani@cpan.org

