This package provides a server for locks and a package for clients to access that server. The result is that clients can access named locks on a Internet wide bases, solving critical section problems without the mess of NFS or other file locking techniques. Author: Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org> WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/IPC-Locker/ -Anton <tobez@FreeBSD.org>