for you locking prob... use flock() > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastian Nerz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problems with programming a forum > > > Hy, > > I actually want to write a little forum-script for my homepage, but I > have several problems: > > 1. I need to lock a file while the script is writing to it. > I actually am doing this by creating a link to this file named > "(filename).lock) > When the script has finished writing data to it, it unlinks this file. > When another script wants to access the data-file, it checks if the > ..lock-file exists. If so it waits a secons and checks again. > It work, but: > There must be a better way to 'lock' files. (and a faster one > - waiting > one secons seems to be a bit long!) > > 2. I need to enable unicode-messages (I'm from germany, and > not enabling > all chars seems to be quite silly!) > How to do that? > > Many many thanks in advance! > > regards > > Sebastian Nerz > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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