Kent Larsson wrote: > In absence of shared memory and threads. What I really must have is > some kind of mutex functionality. I will be manipulating files on disk > and I don't want two instances to be able to touch the disk at the > same time. Touch the disk or touch the file? I assume you meant the latter, i.e. you don't want two instances to operate on the same file concurrently. > Is there something I could use for mutual exclusion? If > there aren't any dedicated methods, are there 100% reliable > workarounds? Look up file locking. In fact, this was the topic of a very recent thread. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
