From:             
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.3.2
Package:          Filesystem function related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:fclose() seems not to unlock the file

Description:
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We have a script that runs in a multiprocess way and it uses flock() for
interprocess communication. Things worked fine until we moved to PHP 5.3.2
where all the processes started to hang all of a sudden. I debugged the
issues and tried several fixes but they didn't solve it. 



I made an extensive log of all the script did in order to find out the
reason, and I got a situation with 4 scripts running trying to get a
non-blocking lock every second, and all of them wrote "lock failed" to the
log. At the same time none of them was supposed to hold the lock at that
time. 



Finally I added an flock($hLock, LOCK_UN); before every fclose($hLock); and
 it is only that that they stopped handing. 

Test script:
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$H=fopen($LockFile, 'a'); flock($H, LOCK_EX);

//...

//flock($H, LOCK_UN); - the fix

fclose($H);

Expected result:
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no deadlock

Actual result:
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Deadlock

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