>  What i am trying to do is,i have to run multiple perl programmes all at
once
to change the contents of a text file. and the text file would contain 2
things. Test name and status.

Yeah, I'd say this is more a computer science/methodology question, rather
than a perl code question.  Using a single flat file for this is probably
the least effective solution.  You'll be doing all the locks, access,
update work yourself and likely running into unexpected results. A database
(even something like sqlite) will do this much better and avoid reinventing
20 wheels.  But that's a different point.

The Perl Cookbook does have a section on this sort of file locking/shared
access you might want to read over.  As long as all your scripts behave and
such, you can do it w/ a single file but ...

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