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. http://lxr.php.net/ may have the answer even faster than asking PHP-Internals... :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
