Thanks, I'm using libcurl, and it's possible to rename after the transfer is finished. I will test that. Micka, On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 10:50 AM Jochen Bern <Jochen.Bern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02.12.20 01:21, Micka wrote: > > I've a directory that is watched for the event write-close. > > When I get this event I assume that the file is received totally. > > Is it correct? > > No, an open FD *will* eventually be closed, by the OS when the process > terminates if need be. Unless the machine *crashes* in mid-operation, of > course ... > > We do a lot of such transfers, and the (our) gold standard, if possible, > is to do an upload-then-rename under client control, with the further > processing stages on the server requiring a "non-temp name" match. > > (Since you didn't specify how exactly you transfer the data: This can be > done with sftp and ssh(*), but not scp.) > > (*) E.g., a la "uuencode tempfile < sourcefile | ssh user@host "uudecode > && mv tempfile finalfile", not that I'd *recommend* such an approach ... > > Regards > -- > Jochen Bern > Systemingenieur > > Binect GmbH > > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
