Re: FLOCK

Akbar Ehsan wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Here is the situation. We have a web form that creates a tab-delimited
> text file. We want to lock this file to clean up the file, may be for a
> minute, so that if anyone submits a form request, it does not get
> written to the. I have been looking at and reading about FLOCK and feel
> it will not server the purpose. I am hoping to find out if someone knows
> about some other function/module to lock a file for a brief period of
> time.
>   
In this situation, I would tag each file with a unique identifier (a 
session ID, for example, like tabdelimited.hd76283420kdfsak9a.txt).  
Then, multiple submissions create different files.  Then, you can have a 
cron job or other cleanup script go through and remove the old or 
complete files. 

Sean