APC locking mechanisme alternative for win32

Question

I want to use APC for php for storing and fetching values (function calls and return values) between a endless running php process and multiple client processes. The endless running process constantly checks for newly stored values. I am running php as a Apache module on WinXP. For each APC function call a apc.lock.* file is placed in the windows temp directory. My harddisk runs overtime. Is there an other locking mechanisme that can be used (or disable locking) in for APC?

Answer 1

What about storing the locks in database table? Optionally you can use build-in function flock.