signaling when a file is closed

[Mogens Kjaer]

Andrew B. Young wrote:

> I have a MRI machine that runs GE's canned software
> which writes out one new file of image data per second
> in a known directory.  I need to stream this data
> into another process in near-real-time.
> 
> Using [id]notify I can watch the directory and know
> when a new file is created. But I need to know when
> the file has been closed by the writing process such
> that there is no more data to be read.

Do these files have the same size when they are finished?

Mogens

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