David Robley wrote: > The OS will take care of this by firing up another instance of > your script. All you need to do is be aware of the possibility of > multiple instances doing ?things? at around the same time and make sure > that you don't have say several instances all writing to the same file at > the same time - use locking where it is not provided by the tool you are > using.
About the only worry I have there is the interaction with the database itself. If two scripts start accessing the db for writing at the same time, I can smell trouble, yes. -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]