From: barjunk <barjunk@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T04:25:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Check Flock Status on File

On Jul 16, 6:38 am, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Matt wrote:
>
> > I have a daemon that is checking files as they are uploaded by FTP and
> > processing them accordingly.
> > I noticed that occasionally the files are truncated, and have put this
> > down to the file currently being written by the FTP server as im
> > reading it.
> > I would like to check the lock status on the file, so I will only
> > process the file if it is not write-locked.
> > How can I check the lock status on a given filename?
>
> fcntl/posix (see posixlock gem) locks export that information but
> flock, afaik, does not.  this seems workable though
>
> http://drawohara.tumblr.com/post/5891548
>
> -a
> --
> we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being
> better. simply reflect on that.
> h.h. the 14th dalai lama


So the code above modifies the File class so that an instance will
include a flocked? method, right?

Is it a good assumption that something like this would eventually make
it into File?

Mike B.