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Peter B. commented on IO-376:
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I got it solved by slightly modified solution described in:
http://mohammed-technical.blogspot.de/2011/02/how-to-read-file-without-locking-in.html
as he reads only byte by byte, where I read to buffer to speed up things up to
RandomAccessFile.length().
Moreover as I already mentioned, similar functionality is already present in
the:
http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/javadocs/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/io/input/Tailer.html
so it should not be such a big deal.
> FileUtils.copyFile for the locked file (windows)
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>
> Key: IO-376
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-376
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Streams/Writers
> Affects Versions: 2.4
> Environment: Windows
> Reporter: Peter B.
> Priority: Minor
>
> The use case:
> - log4j writes to the file using RollingFileAppender.
> - in parallel I need to read the file contents for later manipulation
> (storing it's contents elsewhere)
> Problem on windows:
> - I open FileInputStream for reading from file
> - when using IOUtils.copy(InputStream input, OutputStream output) exception
> is thrown:
> {code}
> java.io.IOException: The process cannot access the file because another
> process has locked a portion of the file
> {code}
> It would be great to have API enabling to copy contents of the locked file
> (on windows) to OutputStream.
> The method available in the API currently:
> {code:java}
> FileUtils.copyFile(File input, OutputStream output)
> {code}
> does the job, except for the files that are locked (in the windows
> environment) as they're currently written to.
> Some of the functionality is already in use in the: Tailer
> However (non-bloked) copying full contents is not provided.
> I'd need to retrieve a snapshot of the file.
> Not sure about the right API, but generally I see 2 options:
> - custom (File)InputSteam implementation or maybe
> - custom FileUtils.copyFile(File input, OutputStream output)
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