Opening a file

[CCortez]

Hi,
I want to open a text file using fopen as the following:
if the file to be open named "file1.txt" is being used for another application (it is already opened or truncated), then I'd like to open another file named "file2.txt", to update it with fwrite function.
How to detect if the file1.txt is already opened or being used?
Please somebody may help me?
Cortez

 

[Nosferatu]

I tried to find an answer to your question at prior times in my life, but found none...

It seems that there is no way to do it... At least, no common way.

In Unix, you would probably inspect the INODES table, but I don't know how you would get access to that...

I Windows might be even tougher... [red]Nosferatu[/red]
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