[ale] OT: Perl Question

[No One]

Have the transferee send a 'lock' file, i.e.. myfile.lock, prior to the
transfer and then delete it when the transfer is complete. If deletion is not
possible, have them send a 'myfile.done' file to signal completion. You can
then look for the presence or absence of this file to indicate when the ftp in
complete.

Ed.

"Robert L. Harris" wrote:

> We have some transfers being done via ftp.  At any rate, there's
> no easy way to get the status of if the transfer is done or not.  Can't
> just watch the size grow and when it stops get it due to network
> latency.
>
> Is there a form of stat() that will tell me if something has a file
> open for writing in perl?   I'm poking around perldoc, etc but
> nothing is just jumping out at me.
>
> Robert
>
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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