[PHP] flock and file reading

Hi all, I've simple question: LOCK_EX is only effective for file writing or it locks reading, too?   Ciao, Stefano -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: E' arrivato EmailBlog, il blog ufficiale di Email.it. Partecipa anche tu! Clicca qui: http

RE: [PHP] flock(), fclose() and O/S buffering

Andrew Hill wrote: > $fp = fopen("/tmp/lock.txt", "w+"); > if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) { // do an exclusive lock >fwrite($fp, "$processName\n"); >flock($fp, LOCK_UN); // release the lock > } else { >echo "Couldn't lock the file !"; > } > fclose($fp); [...] > In this case, although process

[PHP] flock(), fclose() and O/S buffering

Hi all, I have a question about the way flock() and fclose() work in PHP. Consider the following code, slightly modified from the flock() PHP manual page: $fp = fopen("/tmp/lock.txt", "w+"); if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) { // do an exclusive lock fwrite($fp, "$processName\n"); flock($fp, LOCK_U

Re: [PHP] flock problem

. !?! Why?? - Original Message - From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Armand Turpel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] flock problem > Is the file on an N

Re: [PHP] flock problem

Is the file on an NFS-mounted filesystem? flock() in 4.3.3 works fine. -Rasmus On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Armand Turpel wrote: > Hi, > > flock($_fp, LOCK_EX ); > > return always false. I'm relativily shure that the file to flock is not flocked > elsewhere. php 4.3.3 is running as cgi on linux. > Wha

[PHP] flock problem

Hi, flock($_fp, LOCK_EX ); return always false. I'm relativily shure that the file to flock is not flocked elsewhere. php 4.3.3 is running as cgi on linux. What is going wrong? thanks for an answer.

[PHP] flock and unix/apache

PHP 4.1.2 SunOS web-unix1 5.7 apache_1.3.22     I'm porting from WIN2000 to Apache/Unix and having problems with the flock() function.  The following :   $fd = fopen ($file, "r");if (flock($fd, 2)) {   ...}     "if" statement never returns true...  any ideas? ___

[PHP] - Flock manual clarification please ;-)

>From the manual: Note: Because flock() requires a file pointer, you may have to use a special lock file to protect access to a file that you intend to truncate by opening it in write mode (with a "w" or "w+" argument to fopen()). The manual indicates that you "may" need to use "a special lock

[PHP] flock

I'm using flock to manage the access of a file. I've noticed that php seems to wait for the file to be freed up. Is there a ordered que that each request goes into? And a timeout period, or does it just wait? David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMA