[Pmwiki-users] Re: Files in wiki.d/

[Christian Ridderström]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> > (funny about .flock though, I thought that was only created when 
> > an instance of pmwiki is about to write to wiki.d/)
> 
> It's created but never deleted--there's little point in repeatedly 
> creating and deleting the file.  The locking is provided via the 
> flock() function and not the existence/nonexistence of the lock file.

I found a manual page here

	http://se.php.net/flock

but I can't really say I felt wiser after reading it. Seems like flock() 
might be unsafe on NFS for instance. Anyway, I'll happily leave this 
problem for you ;-)

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr