note 101247 deleted from function.flock by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:40:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 101247 deleted from function.flock by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: holdoffhunger at gmail dot com
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>>"You should lock the file _before_ opening it, and unlock _after_ closing it. Othervise
>>an another process might be able to access the file between the lock/unlock and the open/close
>>operation."
The lock is never acquired using this advice. The flock seems to only take the pointer to the file,
not a string containing the file name and location.