[fpc-pascal] Avoiding File conflicts

[Bart]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:19 AM James Richters via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I suspect that I happen to see the file is there and try to read it before the program that created the file is done writing it.
> What is the proper way to detect the file is in use so I don't bother trying to open it until it's done being written?

Simple approach?
Use filemode = fmOpenRead and use a try..except block to open the file?
Opening will fail if the file is locked by another process (triggering
the exception).


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Bart