Perl Programming/Keywords/lock

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The lock keyword[edit | edit source]

THE lock function places an advisory lock on the shared variable or referenced object contained in THING until the lock goes out of scope.

If the argument is a scalar, the value returned is the scalar itself, or a reference, if the argument is an array, hash, or a subroutine.

Syntax[edit | edit source]

  lock THING


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