Hi, I have an application that creates and writes to an output file I need to process. I need to process the file when it is completely written to. I do not initially know how big the file will be in the end. Further, the application does NOT put a write lock on the file while it is writing it. because of the buffering, the program wirtes to the file in random chunks not continuously. And what is worse, the file format itself could vary so there is nothing in the actual file that signals the end of it. Everything is on a linux server.
What's the most efficient way of checking this? - one way is perhaps inifinite loop checking mmtime until it is stable for a certain amount of time?? I am not sure. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kyle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
