> Other than that, if your programs don't do locking at all, then > there's no safe way for you to determine whether a file is done being > written to or not, allowing for a subtle race condition, perhaps just > as subtle as tempfile cracking. >
There is: fuser <filename> or lsof <filename> returns 0 if the filename is being written. rowel _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
