Race Conditions & File Appendages

PHP
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Do race conditions usually exist when writing OR appending to an existing file?


$f1 = fopen($filename1, 'r+');
$f2 = fopen($filename2, 'a');
flock($f1, LOCK_EX);
flock($f2, LOCK_EX);
fwrite($f1, 'foo');
fwrite($f2, 'foo');
flock($f1, LOCK_UN);
flock($f2, LOCK_UN);
fclose($f1);
fclose($f2);

What would happen if this code ran at the exact same time? Is there a chance that the data could be corrupted in the aforementioned code example?

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Unfortunately flock is not thread-safe, this means that if this code runs in the EXACT same time (which is very very unlikely), then you will probably get file corruptions.