NYCPHP Meetup

[Daniel Convissor]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:07:21PM -0500, Atul Ohri wrote:
> yet to find an efficient file locking mechanism that will work for both 
> Perl and PHP.

mv.  Have the cron job move the file before using it.  Have the PHP/PERL
scripts create the file over again if it doesn't exist.

By the way, you better make damn sure you carefully screen the input and 
disallow any harmful characters.

--Dan

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