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
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