Open file handles?

[Thomas Bartkus]

This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. .....

How can I know if anything (I don't care who or what!) is in the middle of
using a particular file?

This comes in context of needing to copy a file BUT only if I can verify
that something else doesn't have an open write handle to that file. IOW - I
need to decline the operation if something else hasn't finished writing to
the file.

How can I know?
Thomas Bartkus

[Jon]

Perhaps using os you could work with lsof
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html]

Jon

Thomas Bartkus wrote:

This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. .....

How can I know if anything (I don't care who or what!) is in the middle of
using a particular file?

This comes in context of needing to copy a file BUT only if I can verify
that something else doesn't have an open write handle to that file. IOW - I
need to decline the operation if something else hasn't finished writing to
the file.

How can I know?
Thomas Bartkus

[Thomas Bartkus]

"Jon" <js****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@b28g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...

Perhaps using os you could work with lsof
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html]

Jon

Of course! That's perfect.
Thank you!

How silly of me not to have noticed that "lsof" means "ListOpenFiles" ;-)
Thomas Bartkus

[danielx]

Is there an equivalent in windows?

Jon wrote:

Perhaps using os you could work with lsof
[http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsof8.html]

Jon

Thomas Bartkus wrote:

This may be more of a Linux question, but I'm doing this from Python. .....

How can I know if anything (I don't care who or what!) is in the middle of
using a particular file?

This comes in context of needing to copy a file BUT only if I can verify
that something else doesn't have an open write handle to that file. IOW - I
need to decline the operation if something else hasn't finished writing to
the file.

How can I know?
Thomas Bartkus