Re: record locking

From: Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:01:37 +0000
Subject: Re: record locking
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the UW imap library has a set of very portable file locking functions, (UW imap supports some 50+ platforms, include dos/amiga..etc...( they will also fall back to the "best" file locking for that OS/filesystem.. it might be worth taking a look into... Mark > > I'm wondering in which way record locking could be integrated into PHP. If you > have followed the discussion on the general mailing list, the consensus was > something on the line to support ``a portable flock.'' Well, this should not > be a big problem, there is at least one way to do that on every Unix flavor. > > Anyway, since PHP seems to have a need for flock (e.g. in functions/db.c), > I'll add a more portable emulator using fcntl(). I don't know where to put it > currently (maybe compat.c?), so if someone could suggest a good place... > > -- > > 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 > > -- 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

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