Re: FLOCK

Akbar Ehsan wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am attempting to lock a file using FLOCK. I understand the FLOCK is an
> advisory lock and that it does not prevent any other process/program
> from "clobbering" the file even when the lock in on the file.
>
> Is there anything I should look into to apply a lock on a file so that
> it does not get written to when the lock is in place?
>
> Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.
>   
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but you might want to look at 
using a transactional database like mysql or postgresql.

Sean