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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:00:52+00:00

Please note that, I don’t have any control over the target file. Some other

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Please note that, I don’t have any control over the target file. Some other process is writing that file. I just want to copy the file when other process completes the write operation.
I was wondering, how i can check the write operation on a file ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try F_NOTIFY argument to fcntl.

    Or you can try inotify if you know that you have a Linux kernel >= 2.6.13. I found an article in Linux Journal which describes how to use it.

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