A flock module for Windows9x and other systems lacking a good perl flock() function (not platform specific) Rationale: flock on Win95/98 is badly broken but perl code needs to be portable. In addition, sometimes code written to use flock() on one workstation needs to be ported to running on several networked servers and clients. One way to allow this is to override perl's open(), flock(), and close(). We then get an absolute file specification for all opened files and and use it in a hash to create a unique lock for the file using the File::LockDir module from the "Perl Cookbook", by Christiansen and Torkington (O'Reilly, 1998). This module may be included in the CPAN distribution but belongs to those authors. New code has been kept to a minimum.
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