How to check whether file is open or not

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:10:42 -0300, Bart Ogryczak <B.Ogryczak at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> On Mar 7, 6:28 am, "Ros" <pyalb... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are 10 files in the folder. I wish to process all the files one
>> by one. But if the files are open or some processing is going on them
>> then I do not want to disturb that process. In that case I would
>> ignore processing that particular file and move to next file.
>
> If you can os.open() with O_EXLOCK flag, it's not open by other
> process. Now that should work on Unix, Linux and MacOS X. All Windows
> proceeding form NT line, are supposed to be POSIX compatible, but
> somehow this flag is not available.

O_EXLOCK is not in POSIX.

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Gabriel Genellina