From: Kathryn Cassidy (hellbunnie at domain irelands-web.ie)
Date: Mon 28 Feb 2000 - 16:02:54 GMT
Agh! I've got a wee script here which is meant to put an exclusive lock on
a file, wait for a minute, then release the lock. It goes something like
this:
open LOCKED, '>>oqq.inc';
$result=flock(LOCKED, LOCK_EX);
if ($result == 0) {
sleep 60;
flock(LOCKED, LOCK_UN);
}
else {
print "bugger";
}
close(LOCKED);
Now, I'm having a bit of a problem here as it appears that I can run two
instances of this script simultaneously with no problems. This suggests
that more than one process is able to put an exclusive lock on the file.
Now, maybe I don't understand file locking as well as I thought I did, but
surely the whole point of an exclusive lock is that it's exclusive?
Anyone want to tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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