Re: Question concerning ruby file access

Stefan Salewski wrote:
But how do I test in this notation that the file with name "testfile"
really exits (and opening was successful). In an multi-tasking
environment another process may delete the file just before this
statement is executed.

If you want to completely avoid race conditions, you don't check - you just do
and then recover from eventual errors (i.e. you rescue the exception).

HTH,
Sebastian
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