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Changes for version 0.2 - 2001-04-02

  • Many changes due to the great contribution of Rob Napier: The class became abstract where classes in the directory LockedFile implements it. This way new schemes other then Flock can be introduced. The interface was extended as a result of that, and the options hash was introduced. Among the new features: opening a file that is not yet locked, blocking & unblocking locks, checking if the file is opened to write and supplying this information to the lock method (so for example shared lock can be used on files that are read), print method, and truncate method.