note 73035 deleted from function.flock by danbrown

Note Submitter: Corey ---- In response to korostel: Using files for things like counters is a very bad idea...especially when you're requiring scripts to wait until the file is available before accessing the file. You should use a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL since they are much better performance-wise (especially MySQL). If you need the data to be in a file for some reason you can always use a cron job that reads the current data from your database and then writes it to the file.