If the count doesn't impress your friends, then the code might. :-)
-=head2 All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
-file. Do I *still* have to use locking?
+=head2 All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a file. Do I still have to use locking?
If you are on a system that correctly implements flock() and you use the
example appending code from "perldoc -f flock" everything will be OK