After wrestling with PHP source for a half an hour, I gave up. :P The question is - what system call does the PHP flock() function call boil down to on a Gentoo Linux system? I'm having some issues with it (like block-for-30-seconds-in-every-one-of-20-loop-iterations kind of issues) and I would like to know why that is so.
A:
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking, PHP's flock()
is a call to the Unix system function flock()
on Gentoo. They have identical semantics.
John Feminella
2009-06-16 14:12:18
Semantics - yes. But does it really call flock()?
Vilx-
2009-06-16 14:16:09
I can't prove it because I'm not running a copy of PHP right now, but I believe so, yes. Why not try it out yourself with strace?
John Feminella
2009-06-16 14:25:00
I have only FTP access to the server.
Vilx-
2009-06-16 14:28:14
Why not just check the PHP source code?
R. Bemrose
2009-06-16 15:17:02
A:
Are you using it on a networked or mounted drive? I wouldn't be surprised if what you are experiencing is deadlock, and some of the comments in the documentation talk about that.
altCognito
2009-06-16 14:12:35
Read carefully - Gentoo Linux here. But the full setup is a bit complicated so I just want to know what it calls underneath, so that I can put the full picture together myself.
Vilx-
2009-06-16 14:15:26
And no, it's not a deadlock, that I'm sure of. But there are other things I'm suspecting.
Vilx-
2009-06-16 14:17:46
Ahh, I just found out that the file is on an NFS mount. And the host box is also trying to flock() it (load balanced webservers, you see).
Vilx-
2009-06-16 14:33:35
+1
A:
// example: $stream = fopen(FILE, 'rb') or die('???');
$md = stream_get_meta_data($stream);
echo $md['wrapper_type'];
flock($stream);
if this prints plainfile then the call to the php function flock() is handled by php_stdiop_set_option(...) which calls flock(). Depending on whether PHP was compiled with HAVE_FLOCK or not this may be the system call flock() or a function defined in flock_compat.c which utilizes fcntl(). On my gentoo system PHP was compiled with HAVE_FLOCK.
main/streams/plain_wrapper.c @ static int php_stdiop_set_option(...):
case PHP_STREAM_OPTION_LOCKING: if (fd == -1) { return -1; } if ((zend_uintptr_t) ptrparam == PHP_STREAM_LOCK_SUPPORTED) { return 0; } if (!flock(fd, value)) { data->lock_flag = value; return 0; } else { return -1; } break;
VolkerK
2009-06-16 14:49:33
+1
A:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fcntl.html
/etc/standard/flock_compat.c [line 66]
ret = fcntl(fd, operation & LOCK_NB ? F_SETLK : F_SETLKW, &flck);
simplemotives
2009-06-16 15:00:59
If this function is called or not depends on the compile time define HAVE_FLOCK
VolkerK
2009-06-16 16:44:03