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Feb 21, 2011 at 2:33 comment added dthorpe The Win32 API call will fail with an error code. Stream classes or .NET wrappers will probably throw an exception. If you want a thread to wait until the file is available again, you'll probably need to set up a sleep/polling loop to try to open the file, if fail sleep for a little while, then loop and try again.
Feb 20, 2011 at 21:24 vote accept eran otzap
Feb 20, 2011 at 21:15 comment added eran otzap thanks, yeah i thought of using named mutexes but the first option hadn't occurd to me , with exclusive read mode block until the file could be opened or does it just throw an exception ?
Feb 20, 2011 at 20:01 history answered dthorpe CC BY-SA 2.5