remove-source-files checking for open files?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

hi

We have a box here connected to an antenna receiving rather large  
amounts of metheorological data from a satellite. the data is received  
and ransferred to another box and removed from the receiving server. I  
first thought of using rsync for this, but it seems --remove-source- 
files has no way of checking if the file is open or not, so if the  
receiving process is still writing to a file, rsync will transfer the  
file and unlink() it without bothering if the file has been modified  
any further, effectively resulting in a corrupt file. I solved this  
with a rather clumsy script doing md5sums for fils at both ends and  
checking if I have the exact same file at both sides some time after  
transfer. this works, but it's not really optimal.

Does anyone know if rsync could be better on this somehow?

roy
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