From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-10-30T09:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Question concerning ruby file access

Stefan Salewski wrote:
> But how do I test in this notation that the file with name "testfile"
> really exits (and opening was successful). In an multi-tasking
> environment another process may delete the file just before this
> statement is executed.

If you want to completely avoid race conditions, you don't check - you just do 
and then recover from eventual errors (i.e. you rescue the exception).

HTH,
Sebastian
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