determine if lock on file

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John A Grandy

What is the best way to determine if another process/thread has a lock on a
file ?

Currently I am attempting to open file for writing and catching exception
.... hardly elegant.
 
What is the best way to determine if another process/thread has a lock ona
file ?

Currently I am attempting to open file for writing and catching exception
... hardly elegant.
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It's the only way I'm afraid.
 
It's the only way I'm afraid.
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Not only that, but you have to keep the file open, you can't do
something like:

if ( !IsFileLocker( filename))
{
//work with file
}
 
It's really the only reliable way. For example if you were to use some
WinAPI to check the file for locks you could experience this


if (!FileIsLocked(fileName))
{
//Too late, another thread or process has got in there first and locked
it
var fs = new FileStream(fileName, ...........);
}
 
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