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Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning [message #176028 is a reply to message #176027]

Thu, 17 November 2011 15:18

The Natural Philosoph
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Registered: September 2010

Karma:

Senior Member

Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having some race condition issues on my server when trying to
> delete a file.
>

what makes you think its a race condition?

> //
> function my_unlink( $filename )
> {
> // remove the old file
> clearstatcache(TRUE, $filename);
> if (file_exists($filename))
> {
> @unlink($filename);
> }
> else
> {
> return true;
> }
>
> clearstatcache(TRUE, $filename);
> return (!file_exists($filename)); // check it was deleted.
> }
> //
>

Why do you care about the stat cache?

> In some cases I get
>
> unlink(/home/xxx/public_html/temp/yyy.zz) [function.unlink]: No such
> file or directory
>
> How can I prevent the warning?
>
Why prevent it at all?

As long as the file is not there when you are finished - why not just
unlink it anyway?

> Thanks
>
> Simon
>

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[Message index]

		Prevent unlink(...) warning By: Simon on Thu, 17 November 2011 15:04
		Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 17 November 2011 15:18
		Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning By: Simon on Thu, 17 November 2011 17:21
		Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 17 November 2011 18:29
		Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 17 November 2011 17:42
		Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 17 November 2011 18:54

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