[asterisk-dev] temporary file names for monitor files

[Octavio Ruiz]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Sherwood McGowan
<sherwood.mcgowan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:24:48PM -0500, John Lange wrote:
> As I read it (pardon me if I'm misunderstanding your question), he wants
> the .tmp or .part to be removed from the filename after the file is
> finished being written to, thereby allowing a simpler method of knowing
> when the file is completed being written to.

Right now what I do is run a lsof inside a script in order to know if
a file descriptor is opened for that file but perhaps use
cache_record_files and record_cache_dir  from asterisk.conf instead
would be a better idea.

> I haven't tested in depth, but I believe that the file is created but
> does not have data in it until after the call is completed, but still we
> don't want to modify/copy/move the file until after it's finished being
> written to. Since you're not sure when the file is done being modified
> by Asterisk, the only thing you can do is check for a modification time
> that is more than x seconds/minutes in the past and then do what you
> wish to do to the file.

lsof will list you all open files.

Regards,

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