On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Dan McMahill wrote: > does this work when you have multiple machines and networked file systems? > For example, the design is on system A, and you have designers on B and C. > B and C access the design files by NFS, AFS, SMBFS, etc.
AFS is good for lockfile type stuff (IIRC, I've used flock() before), but NFS and other filesystems are going to have issues when you go across different machines. http://us2.php.net/flock has some decent observations on file locking. -t
