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Tip revision: 87a92b1f411552504620a3327ad5eb643e884665 authored by Martin Schlather on 21 October 2011, 00:00:00 UTC
version 2.0.50
version 2.0.50
Tip revision: 87a92b1
fileexists.Rd
\name{FileExists}
\alias{FileExists}
\alias{LockRemove}
\title{Files}
\description{
The function \code{FileExists} checks whether a file or a lock-file
exists
The function \code{LockRemove} removes a lock-file
}
\usage{
FileExists(file, PrintLevel=RFparameters()$Print)
LockRemove(file)
}
\arguments{
\item{file}{name of the data file}
\item{PrintLevel}{if \code{PrintLevel<=1} no messages are displayed}
}
\details{
\code{FileExists} checks whether file or file.lock exists.
If none of them exists \code{file}.lock is created and hostname and
PID are written into \code{file}.lock. This is useful if several processes
use the same directory. Further, it is checked whether another process
has tried to create the same file in the same instance. In this case
\code{FileExists} returns for at least one of the processes that
\code{file}.lock has already been created.
}
\value{
\code{FileExists} returns
\item{1}{if \code{file} already exists}
\item{2}{if \code{file}.lock already exists}
\item{3}{if \code{file}.lock was tried to be created, but another process
inferred and got priority}
\item{0}{otherwise, \code{file} and \code{file}.lock did not exist and
\code{file}.lock has been created}
}
\author{Martin Schlather, \email{martin.schlather@math.uni-goettingen.de}
\url{http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/~schlather}}
\keyword{file}
\keyword{utilities}
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