I'd look at java or equivalent to actually run a OS
command to do 'ls -l' and get this result back.
hth
connor
- "Post, Ethan" <epost_at_kcc.com> wrote: > 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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