My original goal was to avoid having filename constraints on the content being dropped off into the shared directory. (Original plan included having multiple customer departments dropping off work, but it's turning out that working entering this directory is all coming from the same location, so we have more control over naming than originally expected.)

I'm going to start by trying lock files with exclusive locks on them. If a process can't create a new file with an exclusive lock, then they move on to the next file in the directory. If that doesn't work, I'm going to see if I can implement a rename-based process.

Thanks.

In reply to Re^2: Synchronizing multiple processes retrieving files out of shared directory by MitchInOmaha
in thread Synchronizing multiple processes retrieving files out of shared directory by MitchInOmaha

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