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waiting for file to finish writing

Subject:	waiting for file to finish writing
Posted by:	"Eugene V. Goldberg" (ego..@mts-nn.ru)
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:52:00 +0400

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Hello,

I have a thread which scans the folder for incoming files and processes
them.

The files are being written by another process.

How do i wait for the file to finish writing? Do i just need to try to open
the file in exclusive mode?

Thanx,
Eugene.

Glossary

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Replies:

Re: waiting for file to finish writing posted by Chris Trueman on 29 Apr 2008
- Re: waiting for file to finish writing posted by Keith Latham on Sat, 03 May 2008
Re: waiting for file to finish writing posted by Martin James on Tue, 29 Apr 2008
Re: waiting for file to finish writing posted by Farshad on Wed, 30 Apr 2008
- Re: waiting for file to finish writing posted by JohnE on Fri, 2 May 2008