Check out the "flock" fucntion
At 16:20 4/10/2001 -0400, Jason Stechschulte wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:10:56AM -0400, Matthew Luchak wrote:
> > Is there a way to verify if a file is in use by another user before
> > fopening it?
>
>As far as I know this is something you have to program in yourself. If
>you are only worried about your programs accessing the file, then it is
>a good idea to create a lock file. Before you access a file called
>mydata, check for a file called mydata.lock. If that exists, then the
>file is in use, so wait and check later. If it does not exist, create a
>file called mydata.lock, open mydata, do with it as you please, close
>mydata, and delete mydata.lock.
>
>You also have to be prepared to handle a situation where your program
>stops before removing the lock file. Usually with PHP, it is much
>easier to just use a database so all this file locking is dealt with by
>the database and not you.
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>Jason Stechschulte
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