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From: bunyip@world.std.com (Jason W May)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: How to tell if a file is open by another process?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.230904.11056@world.std.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 23:09:04 GMT
Sender: bunyip@world.std.com (Jason W May)
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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I am trying to figure out how to determine if an existing file is
already open by another process (over which I have no control).
In this case, the other process is the ftp daemon: I am watching
a particular directory for files to appear, and I want to be able
to tell if an incoming file has been completely transferred.
Is there a way to do this, besides watching to see if the file size
changes?

Thanks,

Jason