In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donn Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, |> "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > "Tom Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje |> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> > |> > > I'm writing a program which reads a series of data files as they are |> > > dumped |> > > into a directory by another process. At the moment, it gets sporadic bugs |> > > when it tries to read files which are only partially written. |> > > |> > > I'm looking for a function which will tell me if a file is opened in |> > > write-mode by another process - if it is, my program will ignore it for |> > > now |> > > and come back to it later. This needs to work on linux and windows. Mac |> > > OS would be a bonus too. An os-independent solution would be good, but I |> > > could write os-specific options and have it pick the appropriate one. |> > |> > Use os.open with the O_EXCL flag; will fail if the other process has the |> > file still open (and will fail if another process is reading the file, too, |> > not just if someone is writing). |> |> O_EXCL fails if the file exists at all - whether closed or open.
Yes. In theory. In practice, it usually works on normal files, provided that all opens are local. Under some circumstances, it will even work for NFS mounted files, as far as I recall. MVS (now zOS) and other mainframe systems had what the poster wants, but modern systems don't. I shall not recommend that the poster asks IBM for a copy of zOS, for reasons that will be well-known to anyone who used MVS (which are NOT the ones claimed by the Unix brigade, which are mostly bogus) :-) Under Linux, you can do something with fuser, and I am pretty certain that modern Macintoshes (i.e. BSD) will have an equivalent. It can't be made reliable (unlike under MVS), but might reduce the number of problems. Regards, Nick Maclaren.
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