Re: [hylafax-users] Ubuntufax

[A J Stiles <hylafax_resp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:55, Graham Chiu wrote:
> I need access to received file queue from the windows side so that I
> can inject the files into a database.

Why not use your FaxDispatch script to  (call up a simple Perl / Python / PHP 
script to)  write the files straight into the database, instead of depositing 
them in a Samba share and expecting Windows to deal with them?  All you will 
need is the appropriate client library bindings for your favourite scripting 
language to talk to your database.

This way as well, you avoid the potential for corruption which exists if the 
Windows end tries to recover a file which hasn't finished being written yet.  
(Unix creates a directory entry as soon as the file is opened for writing, 
and any other process with "r" on the file and "x" on the directory can see 
the file from then on.  Otherwise, `tail -f`would never be able to work!  If 
you copy a big file, you can actually watch its size increasing by repeatedly 
typing `ls -l` in another terminal.)  If you still insist to do it 
arse-backwards, have the Windows end stat the file several times, a few 
seconds apart, to make sure it isn't still growing before retrieving it.

--
AJS

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