This might be useful...
__CODE__
use Fcntl qw/O_WRONLY O_CREAT O_EXCL/;
open(FH, "<", $file)
or sysopen(FH, $file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL)
or die "can't create new file $file: $!";
__CODE__
Thanks,
Chandrashekar
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Gopal Karunakar
<gk.kalipuray...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to check whether a particular file (a simple text file) is open
> in the UNIX environment. i.e. I want to make sure that its not getting
> written into by some other process before my Perl process open it. So that
> it will always get a complete file. Is there some way of making sure of
> this??
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> GK.
>
