On Fri, February 15, 2008 6:42 pm, Michael McGlothlin wrote: > Does anyone have a good method of supporting semaphores when PHP's > System V IPC functions can't be enabled? I'm trying to implement > locking > for using shmop (actually modifying someone elses code) and it > requires > sysvmsg but my shared host doesn't have this enabled.
mkdir is atomic, so you should be able to use that to create a semaphore/lock Just in case something gets wedged, you might check the http://php.net/filemtime of the dir, and ignore anything super stale. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
