I was a little confused because you are talking about users in your original post. If you flock a file and a user can still view it, probably edit it. If only your scripts are accessing the file then you are pretty safe. At least that's my understanding. Peter C. > i'm trying to lock a log file wheneber a new visitor enters the page and > also when we run scripts to traverse the log file looking for specific info. > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:42:38AM -0700, Peter Cornelius wrote: > > According to the docs flock is just an 'advisory' lock. So it only works as > > long as everyone checks the file with flock before working with it, so it's > > not very secure. The point of flock is to keep several programs from > > clobbering each others data so I don't think using it as a security feature > > will work well. What are you trying to do? > > > > Peter C. > > > > Nichole Bialczyk wrote: > > > > > i'm curious as to how secure flock is. if the file is locked and another > > > user tries to access it, does it wait or does it kick them off? also, is > > > it ever possible for it to get stuck? > > > > > > thanks, nichole > >
