warn "Creating $lock_file\n" if $Debug;
open(LOCKFILE,">$lock_file") or die "can't open $lock_file: $!";
+close LOCKFILE;
warn "Creating $socket\n" if $Debug;
my $uaddr = sockaddr_un($socket);
#broken on freebsd?
#flock(STDOUT, LOCK_EX) or die "FATAL: can't lock write stream: $!";
+ #open a new one for each kid to get a unique lock
+ open(LOCKFILE,">$lock_file") or die "can't open $lock_file: $!";
+
flock(LOCKFILE, LOCK_EX) or die "FATAL: can't lock $lock_file: $!";
}