Bug #13919 Updated: flock not working

ID: 13919 Updated by: k.schroeder@php.net Reported By: Julienc@psychologie-fr.com -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Filesystem function related Operating System: Windows 98 PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: File locking isn't supported by windows. Please use the workaround from sbsaylors@yahoo.com: "Well I needed some kind of "lock" in windows, so I just created a lock.file in that directory. So if anything wants to 'write' to that file (or append, whatever) it checks to see if a lock.file (or whatever name you want to use) is there and if the date of the file is old. If its old (1 hour) then it deletes it and goes ahead. If its not old then it waits a random time. When its finised it deletes the file. Seems to work alright but I havent tested anything and its only used for maybe a 100 hits a day but... :)" (User Contributed Notes, http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.flock.php) Regards, Kai Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-11-04 07:02:11] Julienc@psychologie-fr.com flock($fp,2); alwas return false using windows 98. Here a little testcase: $fp=fopen ('myfile.txt','a'); if ( $fp != 0 && flock($fp, 2) ){ fwrite($fp, $mydatas); } else { echo 'error'; } fclose($fp); Other people having the prob: Bug#11828 and 2 users contributed notes (sebastian.theek@gmx.de, manuel.ricca@mail.pt) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13919&edit=1