Hi Gopal, On Tuesday 23 November 2010 14:01:20 Gopal Karunakar wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to check whether a particular file (a simple text file) is open > in the UNIX environment. i.e. I want to make sure that its not getting > written into by some other process before my Perl process open it. So that > it will always get a complete file. Is there some way of making sure of > this?? >
See this thread: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/2010/11/msg114616.html Quoting my email: {{{{{{{{{{{ On Tuesday 02 November 2010 20:49:04 perl_haxor 123 wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a directory in which i have multiple files, i have to read > each one of them and parse the data......but there could be some files > which are in use by some other program, how can i find which files are in > use by other program in perl?.......any suggestions would be really > helpful. > I don't know about Windows, but on UNIX you can use lsof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsof This page says that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer is the Windows equivalent. However, you should rethink your strategy. If you want well-behaving processes not to step on each others' toes you can use file locking for that. }}}}}}}}}} Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
