Logout before time

Junior WebHelper Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Posts: 37

Hi,

I've made a script that due to the fact that its too heavy ( as an application ), I was forced to gather it with a executable, and, in order to be one single person accessing it at the time, I made a little script: if the person is using it, the program writes the word "busy" to a file; in this case if someone else tryes to access it, if the file is written it tells him to wait 30 seconds. After the job done, the file is truncated.
It works well. But there's a problem: what if the person that's using it change of page or stops the script? The file is written and nobody else can access it.

Do you understand my dilema?

Any ideas?

Regards,

Kepler

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

What about using a timestamp instead of just the word "busy"? Therefore if the timestamp is too long ago (say 30 seconds), then you act as though the file wasn't busy. Sorry, won't be able to help you with any of the code though Sad

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:14 pm (19 years, 5 months ago)

Perhaps a better way would be to avoid relying on a lockfile and instead just check to see if the program is running. You could do this by simply checking the output of pidof.

Junior WebHelper Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Posts: 37

Hi,

I'm glad to see you around here again. I solved the problem with a file; when it's busy, its written with the actual value of time ( in seconds ). Other user that tryes to came in, only enters if the file is empty or the difference in seconds between the entry and the file value is greater than 60 secondes. Meanwhile if the main user leaves the page in the middle of the operation, there's no problem. But I'll study - with time - what you suggest.

Kind regards,

Kepler