Re: Open for access with write permission
Re: Open for access with write permission
- Subject: Re: Open for access with write permission
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:34:05 +0100
At 1:35 PM -0700 3/24/08, Houston, Brad wrote:
I've also encountered this problem (OS 10.4.10) when crashing before closing
a file opened for write access on the desktop. Afterwards, I can't open it,
because it's already open. OK, fine. But I can't close it, from the same
script or one written just to close it, because it then says it's not open
to be closed.
The "close" command is wrapped in a try statement prior to the "open"
command, so if it is already open it should close it before re-opening it,
or, if not open, won't crash the program trying to close something that
doesn't exist.
Eventually I get annoyed enough and restart the machine, which is the only
reliable way I've found around this loop of denial.
In fact the situation is worse than that: even if you trash the file
you still can't run a "open for access with write permission", as if
the file was still stuck in the folder.
The pseudo-locking system provided by "with write permission" has
some limits that should be known:
1/ only the process which opened the file can close it, whence an
obvious problem if that process crashes,
2/ attempting to open with write permission a file which is already
has various results depending on what process does: same process ->
error number -49 (file is already open), other process on the same
machine -> error number -54 (file permission error), other process on
a different machine -> no error.
Emmanuel
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