Re: ftp file busy?

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Tue Aug 08 07:34:41 2006

On 07 Aug 06, at 20:32, Jeff Schindler wrote:
> I have an application in which it monitors a particular folder for 
> new files and processes them.  In one particular case, the files 
> are being sent to the folder via FTP - I'm checking to see if the 
> files are busy (NSFileBusy) before trying to read them, but in the 
> case of FTP, it says they aren't busy.  Is there another way to 
> check for an incomplete file for the FTP case?  These are actually 
> JPEG image files, so one option is to parse the headers, get the 
> image dimensions and compare to the file size - but I was hoping 
> there was an easier way to handle this.  Thanks.


FTP doesn't have any concept of "file in use". Parse away.