At 20:34 14/08/2006, you wrote:
Hi all,
an application writes a text file on disk (Windows) and my FPC
application opens it to process it. On some systems I open the file
faster than the OS has finished writing it. I then get an 'Unexpected
end of file'.
I would like to know if there is a way I can detect the file is finish
written on the disk; else should I simply trap the error and then
close/reopen if I get it?
I think the problem is with the write cache. The system don't write
data to disk directly, but to a cache, and when it has time, it
writes 'really' to the disk. Don't know on windows, but on unix
system the system call is flush.
HTH
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