Re: Check if File exists
- From: "Craig Lister" <MyFirstName@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:40:57 -0000
Agreed. Aye, a sleep would be needed... and.. not sure how you do it in C#
yet, but in Delphi, maybe a Application.ProcessMessages; which basically
refreshes the screen for any changes...
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Craig Lister <MyFirstName@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is there no c# way of saying...
>>
>> while fileexists=false....
>> {
>> // Do nothing...
>> }
>
> Yes, there is. But how often do you check? Is your "do nothing" meant
> to be a sleep, or did you really mean to go back to the test
> immediately? If so, that's a tight loop which will absolutely *hammer*
> the CPU until the file is created - and if whatever's creating that
> file is CPU-bound, it could take a long time to arrive...
>
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