Open file handles?

[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