I type this just a little too fast. The first thread is in the midst of
renaming the file when the second thread starts running.
Not deleting the file! Sorry for the confusion.
At 03:00 PM 9/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I having a problem with a piece of code that checks for the existence of a
>file, renames the file, and then deletes the file. The code is run in a
>child window after the user clicks the submit button on the parent window.
>The problem occurs when a user closes the child window while the thread is
>running and then clicks the submit button on the parent window again.
>
>The message appears on the NT Server saying that the file is missing. I
>have tracked it down to the cffile action="RENAME" statement in the code
>below. It appears that the first thread is still processing the delete when
>the second thread is checking for the existence of the file. The first
>thread then finishes and the second thread tries to rename the now
>non-existence file and the error occurs.
>
>Is there something I'm missing with the CFLOCK statement. Also, this is not
>happening all the time. There is some sort of timing issue. I have read
>where a delete on a NT Server does not happen right away. So, my question
>has anybody run into a similar problem and came up with a fix?
>
>Here is the code:
>
><cflock name="arexcelr" type="exclusive" timeout="10">
><cfif FileExists("e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt") is "Yes">
> <cffile action="RENAME" source="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.txt"
>destination="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
> <cffile action="DELETE" file="e:\inetpub\wwwroot\app\junk.del">
></cfif>
></cflock>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jack Tumlin
>Vice President Business Development
>Millennium Software, Inc.
>The Software Solutions Company
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.millsoftinc.com
>
>
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