On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:51:10AM -0400, Henrik Bechmann wrote: > In Lock($op), I take it that the following statement blocks, ie *waits* > until successful, thus effectively creating a queue to write to files? True? > > flock($lockfp,LOCK_EX);
True. > I want to write a simple counter generator, with counters incrementing > in a file, so I need to prevent mult-user concurrent access. That's the purpose of PmWiki's Lock() function -- it makes certain that only one PmWiki process has the lock at any one time for operations that may change the state of the wiki (e.g., editing or saving pages). Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
