+
+# Now, we grab another lock to use git-config(1) locking, so it won't
+# wait on the lock, unlike some of our internal flock()-based locks.
+# This is to prevent direct git-config(1) usage from clobbering our
+# changes.
+my $lockfile = "$pi_config.lock";
+my $lockfh;
+sysopen($lockfh, $lockfile, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL) or do {
+ $lockfh = undef;
+ warn "could not open config file: $lockfile: $!\n";
+ exit(255);
+};
+END { unlink($lockfile) if $lockfh };
+
+my $perm;