Matt: Does it mean that I would have at least the double of filesize to be able to do anything with it ? How come does it protect me from anything ? I mean, if the copy is local won't it be done before the end of the network one ?
Naouak, Grade 2 de Kobal. Site web: http://www.naouak.net On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 20:49, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > That's extremely fragile advice. Just use an atomic move/rename. i.e. copy > it to <name>.tmp and then move it to <name> when done. Don't read any files > with suffix .tmp (or use dot files, even better, though if things break > crappy sysadmins might not "see" the files). > > Matt. > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Naouak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So the best way would be to check whether the file is still growing to >> start the process. >> I will do that. >> >> Thanks for the answer. >> >> Naouak, Grade 2 de Kobal. >> Site web: http://www.naouak.net >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 20:39, fent <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If you don't know the file size, you could use node-growing-file >>> https://github.com/felixge/node-growing-file >>> >>> It uses a timeout to determine if a file is finished growing or not. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:11:29 PM UTC-7, Naouak wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> My aim is to do an automatic operation on files dropped into a >>>> directory over the network. >>>> >>>> To be sure that no one try to modify that file during the execution of >>>> the operation, I want to move it from the drop area to another dir. With >>>> fs.watch I'm able to tell when a new file arrives with the rename event. >>>> The problem is when the transfer is not fast enough, I will get the event >>>> before the file has finished transfer. >>>> >>>> So my question is : Is there a way to know if transfer is done before >>>> doing anything ? >>>> >>>> Thanks for your answers, >>>> >>>> Naouak, Grade 2 de Kobal. >>>> Site web: http://www.naouak.net >>>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: >>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >>> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
