How about using lock? Let writing process locks the files before writing, and unlock after the job's done.
I think it'd work file in most environment. On 1/19/07, Tom Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a program which reads a series of data files as they are dumped > into a directory by another process. At the moment, it gets sporadic bugs > when it tries to read files which are only partially written. > > I'm looking for a function which will tell me if a file is opened in > write-mode by another process - if it is, my program will ignore it for now > and come back to it later. This needs to work on linux and windows. Mac > OS would be a bonus too. An os-independent solution would be good, but I > could write os-specific options and have it pick the appropriate one. > > Is there any way of doing this? I've drawn a blank with google so far. > > A nasty hack would be to use the file modification time, and wait until > that's a few seconds in the past, but is there a nice solution? > > > -- > I'm at CAMbridge, not SPAMbridge > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
