RE: [PHP] Check for open file
| From: | Ashley M. Kirchner | Date: | Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:50:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Check for open file | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:03 PM
> To: sstaples@mnsi.net
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Check for open file
>
>
> As far as I was aware, if you're in the middle of writing to a file and another
> script was attempting to write to it, the OS would prevent that as you had an
> open lock on it.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
And as it turned out, that was not the case. I started copying a 200MiB file from my desktop
machine onto the Samba share. While that was copying, I got onto the server and tried to copy the
file to /tmp and it happily did that for me without any indication that it was still being written
to (which is was by the way.) So, that's not a good way of dealing with this.
I think I'm going to have to go with a time delay function here ...