Re: copyfile avoiding overwrites and race conditions

2006-06-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry Bates wrote: > I guess my approach would be different. To eliminate any race > conditions, I would keep a small text file that always contained > the next filename that is to be written. Something like: > > nextfiletowrite=/path/filename006.dat > > I would try to get a lock on this file, r

Re: copyfile avoiding overwrites and race conditions

2006-06-19 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is a code fragment, where I am trying to copy a file, avoiding > overwrites and race conditions. The filename gets a '02','03','04' etc > appended to the end if a file with that name already exists. > > I know the writing of the single space is overkill, but I am s