lock_release

Release a lock previously acquired by lock_acquire().

This will release the named lock if it is still held by the current request.

Parameters

$name: The name of the lock.

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4 calls to lock_release()

File

includes/lock.inc, line 206

A database-mediated implementation of a locking mechanism.

Code

function lock_release($name) {
  global $locks;

  unset($locks[$name]);
  db_query("DELETE FROM {semaphore} WHERE name = '%s' AND value = '%s'", $name, _lock_id());
}