Re: File IO and Threading

Can we see your code. At least the writes and deletes.

Thanks,
Mike Ober.

"Sean Chambers" <dkode8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A better way would be to rename the file first, like logfile.log.old.

This way if another thread tries to write, it will recreate the file as
the file doesn't exist, then shortly thereafter the logfile.log.old is
deleted.

Would this work?

If not, try putting a 10ms sleep, then 20ms, all the way up until you
find the correct amount of time to sleep for, although I would
recommend against putting the thread to sleep. I don't usually use this
method as it feels kind of clunky to me.

Sean

Jayme Pechan wrote:
I seem to have run into a strange problem. I'm hoping one of you
understand
the inner working of the file IO better than I and could explain why I'm
seeing what I am. Basically, I have a log folder where I append to text
files frequently. Every 10 minutes or so, I check to see if the files
are
greater than a certain size and then archive them. After archiving the
files, I use the File.Delete function to delete each of the files. I
put
the File.Delete in a lock section to ensure that it completes before
another
threat attempts to write to them. The problem I'm seeing is that it
seems
like the File.Delete doesn't delete the files immediately and even
though it
is supposed to remove it from the directory tree (I think), if another
thread attempts to append to one of these files too soon after leaving
my
lock block, the whole program locks up. I thought of putting in a sleep
after the deletions but I wouldn't know how long to set it for.

My solution is to move the files to a sub folder first before deleting
them
but wanted to see if anyone would know why I'm having this problem in
the
first place.

Thanks

Jayme





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