I need to implement the following:
I need to treat a directory as a file queue. End-users will continuously put files into the directory. File size will be very large. I will have a background process written in Perl, to continuously copy files from that directory to some other directories.
The PROBLEM:
How can I ensure I only copy file which is a complete file? Because the file size is very large, I might copy some file which is still in the process of being copied from End-users' directory to that directory. I am thinking that I can 'seek' to the end of the file, check if condition eof() is true or not. If true, then this is a complete file, if not, then just skip dealing with this file. I don't know if this method would work.

Please help, thanks!

In reply to Treat a directory as file queue by Anonymous Monk

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