Re: Is flock() necessary on a simple file append?
| From: | Paul Fierro | Date: | Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:13:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is flock() necessary on a simple file append? | ||
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On 10/24/2004 5:11 PM, Kevin Grigorenko <kevin@myplaceonline.com> wrote:
> I am appending to a file one line of text on every page hit, so there could
> be many occurrences of this append simultaneously. I am not opening for
> write ("w") but for append ("a"). Do I need to use flock() to be sure there
> are no issues? I am running on Solaris.
On 10/24/2004 5:39 PM, Hristo Yankov <hristo_y@yahoo.com> wrote:
> append is the same as write (it requires write access
> for example), so if you are gonna use flock for "w",
> use it for "a" too.
According to this post, you do not need to use flock() if you open a file in
append mode:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=105165806915109&w=2
Paul