checking locks for ostream files

Johnny

I'm trying to figure out how to solve a potential problem with generation of ostream files.

Templating works at the file system, level so when running iwpt_compile.ipl you have to check for locks, existing jobs yourself. But what about ostream files?

There is the case where somebody has a file attached to a job (and locked) that was created by an ostream. Someone else could easily overwrite this file from another page generation.

The ofile can be checked before generation as it's location has to be known, but ostream files are specified in the templates themselves. I haven't seen a way to find out what they are until after page generation (-manifest).


Has anybody looked into this limitation?

John Cuiuli

Joshua

I haven't heard of an elegant solution to this problem. Taking a quick look at the perl code, doesn't appear to handle that issue. That being said, couldn't you use the same logic you are applying when using the clt within the tpl? Just Curious?