On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Steve Staples sstap...@mnsi.net wrote:
Depending on the size of the file, wouldn't this fall under the 2gb
limitation on windows 32bit OS? I ran into this problem on a project I
was working on, and ended up switching to Python (but that is a WHOLE
other
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From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 2:03 PM
To: sstap...@mnsi.net
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Check for open file
As far as I was aware, if you're in the middle of writing to a file
On 3 March 2011 19:59, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote:
Is there a clean or reliable way of checking to see if a
file is still being written to before doing anything with it?
Here's the scenario: we have a Samba share that we can copy
files to
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 14:59, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote:
Can PHP detect this, or should I look into some delayed
process of checking the file's modified time stamp versus current time and
not touch the file till a certain threshold has been reached (say 30
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 09:55 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 14:59, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote:
Can PHP detect this, or should I look into some delayed
process of checking the file's modified time stamp versus current time and
not touch the
From: Ashley M. Kirchner
Is there a clean or reliable way of checking to see if a
file is still being written to before doing anything with it?
Here's the scenario: we have a Samba share that we can copy
files to (from within Windows or Macs). The server picks up
the file and does some
Write the file with a temporary name and extension. Once the file is
closed,
change the name to the pattern your server is looking for. Once you finish
processing it, either change the name again, or move it to a different
directory. Don't reuse the same file name, but add a numeric value
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 13:23 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Write the file with a temporary name and extension. Once the file is
closed,
change the name to the pattern your server is looking for. Once you finish
processing it, either change the name again, or move it to a different
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 15:29 -0500, Steve Staples wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 13:23 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Write the file with a temporary name and extension. Once the file is
closed,
change the name to the pattern your server is looking for. Once you finish
processing it,
As far as I was aware, if you're in the middle of writing to a file and
another
script was attempting to write to it, the OS would prevent that as you had an
open lock on it.
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Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
I guess I would have to test that.
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On Mar 4, 2011 4:53 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote:
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From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk]
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To: sstap...@mnsi.net
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Check for open file
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