Re: [PHP3] File Locking

On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:17:23AM -0500, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > [moved to php-dev] > > > locks are released automatically, if (a) the process exits or (b) the > > descriptor is closed. > > Ok, we know (a) won't happen, and are you sure (b) is true on all > platforms, including Windows? > > -Rasmus (b) is true for every OS without a bug in this specific part. A standard UNIX operating system will associate locks with a specific descriptor and if this descriptor is closed, all these locks _must_ be released. Since Windows tries to be a POSIX-like conformant system, it should share the same semantics. Unfortunately, my only Win32 coding reference does not list any information about this topic. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann | Consultant | finger sas@schell.de | for PGP public key -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net