Re: Atomic file check/opening?

When you checked the docs for fopen(), you'd have found the answer to the first half of your question covered there http://www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php flock will do the job for locking files, not sure about directories though - you might give it a try and see what happens jason > Is there a function in PHP 4 (I'm using 4.0.1, specifically) that checks or > the existence of a file, then creates it if it doesn't exist, all in one > "atomic" process? In C under Unix, I would use this: > > fdes = open("path/to/file",O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL,0); > > I need this to "lock" a directory, so that only one process at a time can > move files into or out of the directory. I have checked the documentation > for fopen and flock, but they don't seem to have what I am looking for. > > Thanks for any help! > > ---Kris Kelley > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >