Re: Re: Mandatory File Locking in PHP?
| From: | George Schlossnagle | Date: | Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:55:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Mandatory File Locking in PHP? | ||
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On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Marcus Börger wrote:
At 18:07 29.01.2003, George Schlossnagle wrote:My fault, I interpreted it to be a 'how do I use mandatory locks (as a user)'Aside from this being on the wrong list (this should go to php-general), it's worth noting that mandatory locking support is pretty inconsistently implemented across most OSs.Why wrong list?
Inside dba i use flock compatibility routines. If you can show us how to do that on Netware or if you can use those mechanisms then both (streams and netware port) would benefit.The real question is why you need mandatory locks and not advisory locks. If everyone is playing on the same team, advisory locks should provide all the semantics you need (and are very portable). Mandatory locks (on linux at least) require not only special mount options, but special perms to the file (g-x, g+s, I believe). That seems like a lot to require inside an extension.