Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 04/07/05 07:56

Lars B. Jensen wrote:
> I would use a cronjob to make the entry rather than a user, why let the
> poor guy wait for you to create the content
>
>>> You may have 2 requests both trying to
>>
>> create the new cache entry, but that is much cleaner than having to
>> deal with locking. Do a tempnam() to get a temp file to write to and
>> then do a rename() if this is a filesystem thing.

Right, if he has access to create cron jobs, that is of course by far
the superior approach.

-Rasmus

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