Re: [PHP] Re: Getting the process ID

2005-03-24 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Joshua Beall wrote: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joshua Beall wrote: I am doing some work where I want to do locking, and prevent scripts from running in parallel. I see that I could use the semaphore mechanism, but I'd like for my code to be por

Re: [PHP] Re: Getting the process ID

2005-03-24 Thread Josh Whiting
> The problem I am having is that people are double-submitting certain > transactions. My first attempt to prevent this was to store a flag in the > session record indicating whether or not certain transactions had been > completed, but this turned out to be insufficient at times because users

Re: [PHP] Re: Getting the process ID

2005-03-24 Thread trlists
On 24 Mar 2005 Joshua Beall wrote: > I realized that this sort of problem would always exist unless I had some > sort of semaphore mechanism. Once a user has *started* a transaction, they > need to be prevented from initiating a second transaction until the first > transaction has been complet

[PHP] Re: Getting the process ID

2005-03-24 Thread Joshua Beall
"Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Joshua Beall wrote: >> I am doing some work where I want to do locking, and prevent scripts from >> running in parallel. I see that I could use the semaphore mechanism, but >> I'd like for my code to be portable, and