[Boost-users] [filesystem] How to tell if a file is locked.

Subject: [Boost-users] [filesystem] How to tell if a file is locked.
From: Andrew Maclean (andrew.amaclean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-26 18:07:56

Is it possible using boost::filesystem functions to determine if a
file is locked?
I have a program which scans a directory for files and I want it to
ignore locked files because other process are writing to them.

Basically I want to do the following:
get the file
if (is_locked())
   continue
else
  process the file

So I just want to know if it is locked. This must work for both Linux
and Windows Vista.

Has anyone any ideas or example code?

Thanks
   Andrew

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