Re: Busy Status
Re: Busy Status
- Subject: Re: Busy Status
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:33:31 -0500
At 7:55 PM -0800 11/2/02, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 6:26 PM -0500 11/2/02, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
I guess Jon's 'fileIsBusy' hasn't made it to X but I mention just in case.
Yep, it's in the OS X version (thanks for the nudge) but it doesn't
work either (not the way I want it to anyway). ;-) According to the
description, it tells whether or not a file is open. Based on my
tests with Jon's Commands, Standard Additions and the Finder, a
file that is in the process of being downloaded presents a
challenge when trying to determine its busy status. <shrug>
OSX changes the way files are shared. No longer does have having a
file open for write access prevent another process from opening it
for write access, which prevents this command from working. I'm
looking into what it would take to fix this, but I haven't found
anything worth implementing yet, and if I don't, I'll probably just
remove the command.
Thanks for confirming this seemingly hazardous situation. Just today
I noticed that a script could write to a file that was already open
in TextEdit but I didn't push it to see what would happen if I edited
and saved the file with TE while the script was writing. It seems
that no good could come from it and I wonder how to prevent problems
in the rare cases where this might occur.
Rob
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