On 2010-09-23, loial jldunn2...@gmail.com wrote:
How can I check whether a file is being written to by another process
before I access it?
You mean written to or open for possible writing?
It may be possible (with sufficient privileges) to determine that a
file has been opened for writing. I
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.
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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
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:55:52 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
Last time I checked, file-locking in unix was co-operative.
Linux supports mandatory locking, but it's seldom enabled.
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