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Get list of open files. [message #15572]

Tue, 29 April 2008 14:00

captainc
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Registered: December 2006
Location: New Jersey, USA

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I have a process that reads files in a directory. Is there a way to find out if another process has a file open? I don't want to read from the files that are in the directory unless they are done being written to. I have encountered a few situations where the file was not fully copied into the folder, and the process would begin reading from the file because it appeared in the directory already.

I figure that there has to be a way of getting the list of open file descriptors from the OS; maybe this should be a part of Upp library since it may require implementation on a per operating system basis?

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