Boris, Long ago in a world before PC's (30+ years), I saw a 'baton' used with a shop floor computer system. Updating the programs was a problem as they were running live. It would screw up transactions, inventories, etc. if they were updated. A clever systems programming guy created a 'baton' file. You couldn't update the shop floor programs unless you held the 'baton.' And the shop floor programs couldn't run unless they held the 'baton.' Simultaneous use conflict resolved! Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:47:43PM +0300, Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> However, I don't intend to *install* updates. All I need is to copy >> certain files from certain location(s) to the respective destination >> location(s)... > > The way to handle this on a Unix box would be to rename the old (open) > file, then copy over the new ones. > > I haven't tried renaming an open file on Windows, so I don't know if > that works. It shouldn't be too hard to test, though. > > That still leaves unsolved the problem of deleting the older files. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
