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The file locking mechanism in PHP makes processes queue up for their locks by default

 
<?
    $fp = fopen("foo.txt", "w");
    if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) {
            print "Got lock!\n";
            sleep(10);
            flock($fp, LOCK_UN);
    }
?>








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