Hi
Is it possible to find out if another process is using a paticular file
(xml)? There does not seem to be anything useful in the File och Filestream
class for this purpose.
regards
Carl
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If you attempt to open the file and get an exception, another process is
using it. Use a try/catch block.
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Hi
Is it possible to find out if another process is using a paticular file
(xml)? There does not seem to be anything useful in the File och
Filestream class for this purpose.
regards
Carl
Hi Carl,
Only kernel mode code can enumerate which files are opened by other
processes, for example, the Handle utility
( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...eads/Handle.ms
px) is using a driver to list all open handles by all processes.
Therefore your objective to do it in .NET might not be possible.
However, if a file is exclusively opened by other processes, an exception
will be thrown when you try to open it again in .NET.
Sincerely,
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Ok, Thanks for your replies.
Too bad there is no easy way. I'm waiting for a lenghy file operation to
complete, therefore it would be nice to check to see when there are no
handles (at least from the app I'm waiting for). Unfortunately the file does
not seem to be locked, by the other process (I'm only reading it), but what
saves me is that it is in XML format, so it will not be well formed if I
grab it to early.
Regards
Carl
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Hi Carl,
Only kernel mode code can enumerate which files are opened by other
processes, for example, the Handle utility
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...eads/Handle.ms
px) is using a driver to list all open handles by all processes.
Therefore your objective to do it in .NET might not be possible.
However, if a file is exclusively opened by other processes, an exception
will be thrown when you try to open it again in .NET.
Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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On Apr 3, 6:08 am, "Carl" <c...@community .nospamwrote:
Ok, Thanks for your replies.
Too bad there is no easy way. I'm waiting for a lenghy file operation to
complete, therefore it would be nice to check to see when there are no
handles (at least from the app I'm waiting for). Unfortunately the file does
not seem to be locked, by the other process (I'm only reading it), but what
saves me is that it is in XML format, so it will not be well formed if I
grab it to early.
Regards
Carl
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Hi Carl,
Only kernel mode code can enumerate which files are opened by other
processes, for example, the Handle utility
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...AndThreads/Han...
px) is using a driver to list all open handles by all processes.
Therefore your objective to do it in .NET might not be possible.
However, if a file is exclusively opened by other processes, an exception
will be thrown when you try to open it again in .NET.
Sincerely,
Walter Wang (waw...@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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If you try to open the file exclusively, you will get an exception if
it is still in use regardless of how other programs have opened it.
Chris
I think we need to first know how the other process is writing to the xml
file: sometimes a process will append some content to a file then close it
and repeat this until all content are written to the file. If the process
is keeping the file open for writing, normally you will have to specify
FileShare.ReadW rite or FileShare.Write to open it before the other process
closes it. Since you mentioned that you're able to read the file, if you're
not specifying this FileShare flag, I suspect the other process is not
keeping the file open. You can determine this by using FileMon
( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...k/Filemon.mspx) to
monitor the other process's file activity.
If the other process it not keeping the file open for writing, then you
really don't know whether or not it finished writing to the file.
About the FileShare stuff, you can find a related thread here: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...es.csharp/brow
se_thread/thread/9adcc0203e0806e 5/68232ed6863c63a 3?lnk=st&q=file &rnum=5#6823
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(Just scroll down and see the last few messages)
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Thanks alot for your recommendations and tips. I will investigate how the
other process is using the file and take actions from that!
regards
Carl
Hi Carl,
Have you got a chance to find out how the other process is using the file?
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Unfortunately not at the moment, but perhapse in a few days.
regards
Carl
Hi Carl,
Thanks for the update.
Please feel free to reply here whenever you've got updated information on
the issue.
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