UTL_FILE and ksh

From: Post, Ethan <epost_at_kcc.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:22:39 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0037DBEE.20010830110621@fatcity.com>

I have a directory that another process will be placing files in and I will be processing them using the UTL_FILE package. I wish there was a way to list the contents of a directory from PLSQL but I don't think that there is. My solution at this point is cron out a ksh script that will check the directory and call the procedure to handle the file. I need to check if the file is still being written to. I am checking to see if the file is writable but even when the file was opened by another session using VI it came back as writable so that does not appear to work. What are your solutions to this problem. Some of my other thoughts are to have the processes writing the file to only make the file readable to other processes once it is complete?

Thanks,
Ethan
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