Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollybox.de> writes: > On Thursday 23 September 2010, it occurred to loial to exclaim: >> How can I check whether a file is being written to by another process >> before I access it? >> >> Platform is unix. > > As such, you can't. But you can lock the file using the functions in the > fcntl > module.
Last time I checked, file-locking in unix was co-operative. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list