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I guess the interactions are a bit different than my expectations. I get the same results. Worse, once I get the exclusive access, the other process still has the file open for write access but its attempts to write to the file fail.

So, instead, don't share "r" access and you can tell if anything has the file open at all, it seems.

- tye        

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