Re: Locking in PHP (Question for PHP Gurus)

From:	Rasmus Lerdorf	Date:	Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:56:06 +0000
Subject:	Re: Locking in PHP (Question for PHP Gurus)
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Lars B. Jensen wrote:

I would use a cronjob to make the entry rather than a user, why let the poor guy wait for you to create the content
You may have 2 requests both trying to
create the new cache entry, but that is much cleaner than having to deal with locking. Do a tempnam() to get a temp file to write to and then do a rename() if this is a filesystem thing.

Right, if he has access to create cron jobs, that is of course by far the superior approach. -Rasmus