From: dragonyy <dragon.yinn@...>
Date: 2009-04-28T18:30:32+09:00
Subject: Re: How Check File Busy?

On 4月28日, 下午5時17分, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> IMHO it's difficult to detect that. You could use shell utility
> "fuser" if available on your platform.  In a shell script you could do
>
> while fuser "$file" >/dev/null; do
>   sleep 1
> done
> cp "$file" "$somewhere_else"
>
> Maybe you can use an FTP server which allows to trigger post
> processing after an upload has finished.  I am not sure about FTP
> library, but if it contains a server part you might even be able to
> cook one yourself.
>
> Kind regards
>
> robert
>
> --
> remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without endhttp://blog.rubybestpractices.com/

Once I had the same problem transmitting by SSH, and then I used an
external tool 'lsof' to
report those processes opening the target files. Maybe you can do this
way. Though sometimes
lsof is really slow to return.

regards
dragon