[fpc-pascal]Delay replacement...

Tue Nov 28 10:04:09 CET 2000

At Tue, 28 Nov 2000, fpc-pascal at deadlock.et.tudelft.nl wrote:
>Hi, everybody!
>
>I am currently writing some CGI programs which need exclusive access to
>particular files. (Never must these files be accessed from more that one
>instance of this program, but -- because of the nature of cgi -- it can
>theoretically be launched unlimited times...
>
>So I use a lock file which I place in /tmp/ and the program tests its
>presence and waits until it is vanished, then it creates one by itself...
>

Maybe you should try file-locking?
FLOCK(....)
See docs

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