Re: Test if a file is locked by the OS

Brian Candler <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:40:51 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.mod-ruby
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 01:36:09PM -0600, Daniel Mynyk wrote:
> Is there a way in Ruby to test if a file is locked by the OS?

Try to lock it yourself - if you ask for an exclusive lock, and another app
has a shared or exclusive lock, it will fail.

This isn't mod_ruby related though - maybe ruby-talk would be a better
place for generic Ruby questions.