Hello php-general, Script flock.php: <? $file_name = 'flock.txt'; for($i=0;$i<1000;$i++){ if ($fd = fopen($file_name,'a+')){ if (flock($fd,LOCK_EX)){ fseek($fd,0,SEEK_END); fwrite($fd,$i.' : '.$i."\n"); flock($fd,LOCK_UN); }else{ die('Can not lock file'); } fclose($fd); }else{ echo 'Can not open file'; } } ?> Run it: ab -n 10 -c 10 http://host/flock.php Why file have similar lines ? 432 : 431 : 431 432 433 : 433 ... 84841 : 841 2 : 842 May be flock not working or I do not understand, how it should work ? How correctly to write in a file from different threads? P.S I use Linux-2.2.17+PHP4.0.4pl1 Best regards, Andrew Sitnikov e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM: (+372) 56491109 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]