It may not be a direct answer to your question, but... You could just use flock() to lock the file while accessing it. louis 2011/4/4 Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I'd like to know (from someone who knows the internals more than I do) > whether the following functions lock files and to what extent: > > fopen($filename, 'w'); > > Does this function lock the file from writes until fclose()? > Does it lock from reads as well? > > fopen($filename, 'r+'); > > Does this function lock the file from writes until fclose()? > Does it lock the file from reads as well? > > file($filename); > > Does this function lock the file from writes until finished? > Does it lock the file from reads as well? > > All this is in the context of a Linux/Unix web server. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
