That is not one of my options. The files need to be taken as is once they are uploaded. I don't have the clout nor do the submitters have the knowledge to go in and rename files via FTP. Most of the people uploading these files are lucky to be able to FTP them. I cannot enforce new to old naming conventions and expect them to do this, I am lucky I get them to stick to the naming conventions at all. So the issue is I need to be able to tell if a file is currently open and being written to by any other process. I haven't been able to find anything as of yet to do this. I have though of work arounds such as writting filenames and time stamps to a DB and looking to the xferlog for new incoming files but I would much rather do this on the level of the files itself rather then bringing in extraneous resources. I've also tried flock but I can get a full lock even if the file is being written to by another source (such a file becoming a tar can flock'd mid tar) which I don't want if the file is still being written to. Any process I have control of do go temp to final filenames when using FTP where I can.

In reply to Re: Re: FTP and File Copying by Anonymous Monk
in thread FTP and File Copying by Anonymous Monk

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