Re: Re: Pear::Cache lock files

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Thomas Chille wrote: > Hi Vinai, > > your workaround sounds tricky and i think it > would also solve my problems(if any occurs). > > i dont know how importend is my opinion, > cause i'm new in the list but i think: > > i love the pear-philosophy to create easy to use > reuseable standard classes that i could find at > one place in the www.. > so im my opinion you should share your excperience > with manual lemos (see message before). > > i would prefer a solution wich could handle different > kind of solutions. it means the user can choose between > flock()-, semaphore- or your workaround- style to > prevent data corruption . good idea. but especially for something like a cache class, performance is very important, so i would say: KISS (keep it simple stupid ... ) that does not say, that i think, it doesn't need file locking :) chregu