On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 8:07 AM Girgias <george.bany...@gmail.com wrote: > > The most common case which comes to mind is to suppress erros while file > reading. > Because even if you check a file exists it could be deleted inbetween the > check and the > read command. As you can see this is even written in the documentation [1] > > Best regards > > George Peter Banyard > > [1] https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php >
That is one the cases I meant. Also this is a bug in the user code. I can imagine doing it on purpose for performance reasons (if the file is created/deleted by other apps) tho'. flock is what should be used here. best, Pierre > >
