Re: PHP fopen() bug + solution

At 00:51 08.11.2002, Charles Wiltgen said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Example: while(!file_exists("index.php") { clearstatcache(); } > while(filesize("index.php" < 10) { clearstatcache(); } --------------------[snip]-------------------- To be more effective, and to allow the OS to do something else while you're waiting at the file, your script should sleep for some microseconds... this will release the time slice your script is occupying and allow other things to happen, without having the cpu going up to 100%. while(!file_exists("index.php") { usleep(100); clearstatcache(); } while(filesize("index.php" < 10) { usleep(100); clearstatcache(); } This will sleep for 0.1 seconds, not really notable. Note that I put the call to clearstatcache() _after_ the sleep... -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/