Re: Howto implement atomical actions

Andy Pieters wrote:

I am developing a web interface to patch a program. The user uploads the patch and after uncompressing and verification of signature, the update should take place. However I do not want users to be able to start an update and then abort the process by stopping to load the page.

You can ignore user aborts: http://php.net/ignore_user_abort This has very little to do with atomic actions, but maybe it answers your question. :-) Chris -- Chris Shiflett Brain Bulb, The PHP Consultancy http://brainbulb.com/