On Wed, September 20, 2006 1:36 pm, Matthew H. North wrote: > Can't find this in the PHP docs, so: does anyone know whether > move_uploaded_file locks the target file during the process? > > If move_uploaded_file does a rename within the same filesystem this > isn't an > issue (on unix, anyway, the O/S just reassigns inodes rather than > copying > data). But if it does a copy instead, or if it has to rename across > filesystems, any process that tries to read or write the file before > move_uploaded_file completes could be munging things.
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