how to get file contents of locked file in PHP

What's the best way, idiomatically, of getting the file contents (into a string) of a flock'd file in PHP?

Edit: To be clear, this is something 开发者_StackOverflow中文版locked by the current page/process. Something like:

if(flock($fp ...)) {
  $str = READFILECONTENTS($fp);
  flock(...);
}

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Don't. Wait for the lock to be released and only then read it.

Or just read it anyway.