note 31274 added to function.flock

Users may find that the following is more useful than flock. function filelock($operation) { $lock_file = "filelock.txt"; switch($operation) { case LOCK_SH: // 1 case LOCK_EX: // 2 do { clearstatcache(); usleep(rand(5,70)); } while(file_exists($lock_file)); $fp = fopen2($lock_file, "wb"); fwrite($fp, "blah blah blah"); fclose($fp); break; case LOCK_UN: // 3 do { clearstatcache(); usleep(rand(5,70)); } while(!file_exists($lock_file)); unlink($lock_file); break; default: break; } } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.flock.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+31274 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+31274 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+31274