Re: Mandatory File Locking in PHP?
| From: | J Smith | Date: | Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:59:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Mandatory File Locking in PHP? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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Try the direct I/O extension, specifically dio_fcntl(). Just make sure the
filesystem you're using the locks on was mounted with "-o mand", and the
locks will be mandatory by default.
J
Ananth Kesari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From the PHP manual I find that the flock() function does a advisory
> file locking. Is there a way to do mandatory file locking where we do
> strict locking? That is once a file is locked, no other process or
> thread is allowed to edit the file untill the lock owner is done with
> his job and he has removed the lock.
>
> Thanks,
> Ananth.