remove-source-files checking for open files?

[Paul Slootman]

On Wed 03 Jun 2009, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

>> I would solve this not using rsync, but by writing the active file in a
>> separate directory, or by first writing to a special filename and
>> renaming when done (like firefox adds .part to the filename while it  
>> is
>> still downloading it).
>
> Why not just something like --ignore-open-files?

Because checking whether a process has a file open can be very costly in
system resources.


Paul