On Feb 19, 2008 1:45 PM, Kiran Divakaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Have a design issue relating to handling files. > > There is process 1 which churns out a flat file . > > Now there is another process which needs to read this file and update the > information contained into a database. > > So how should this be managed ideally .... > > This should be done so that there is a race condition that needs to be > avoided between the write and the read processes.
Use a pipe instead? -- PJH http://shabbleland.myminicity.com
