Re: Some advice on working with files

From: Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:02:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Some advice on working with files
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John Biesnecker writes: > You can do advisory file locking using flock() in PHP but it only > works if just PHP is using it... true C offers more extensive > locking functions... So, PHP is doing something other than calling the equivalent flock() system call, such as setting some kind of state in the server? The restriction to PHP-only honoring of the lock seems like an unnecessary weakness in that case. Billy

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