Re: How can I lock a record using php-ldap?

[Jim C <jcllings@tsunamicomm.net>]

<the lights come on>
Dude!!! Thank you very, very much. :-)

I learned php last week as a way of trying to deal with these problems 
and as a consequence, while I am very much familiar with programming 
concepts and data structures, I am an extreme newbie with the PHP 
language. I absolutely did not expect (and consequently did not look 
for) a semaphore structure in a scripting language.  Why?  I dunno, 
probably because I am to used to having such things abstracted away or 
something.

This is the only down side from http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php :
Note: This extension is not available on Windows platforms.


Once again thanks,


Jim C.


P.S. I see that Perl has similar structures which explains why Perl was 
considered (and used) to develop the Sammba-LDAP-tools suite.  It 
explains much.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/semget.html

Mike O'Rourke wrote:
> You could use the sem_get(), sem_acquire() and sem_release() functions