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From: Simon <bad@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
Subject: Prevent unlink(...) warning
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:04:13 +0200
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Hi,

I am having some race condition issues on my server when trying to 
delete a file.

//
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.
}
//

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?

Thanks

Simon