Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning

From	Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning
Date	2011-11-17 13:54 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ja3l8u$hi2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 11/17/2011 10:04 AM, Simon wrote:
> 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
>

In addition to what Álvaro said, if you're doing a lot of this in your 
scripts, I would suspect a database may be a better solution.

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  Re: Prevent unlink(...) warning Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-11-17 13:54 -0500

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