I have, essentially, the same problem as this poster, but in C#: Waiting until a file is available for reading with Win32
More information: we have code that calls File.Open
in one of our projects, that occasionally dies when the file is already opened by another process (EDIT: or thread):
FileStream stream = File.Open(m_fileName, m_mode, m_access);
/* do stream-type-stuff */
stream.Close();
File.Open
will throw an IOException
(which is currently quietly swallowed somewhere), whose HResult
property is 0x80070020
(ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION
). What I would like to do is this:
FileStream stream = null;
while (stream == null) {
try {
stream = File.Open(m_fileName, m_mode, m_access, FileShare.Read);
} catch (IOException e) {
const int ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION = int(0x80070020);
if (e.HResult != ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION)
throw;
else
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}
/* do stream-type-stuff */
stream.Close();
However, HResult
is a protected member of Exception
, and cannot be accessed -- the code does not compile. Is there another way of accessing the HResult
, or perhaps, another part of .NET I might use to do what I want?
Oh, one final caveat, and it's a doozy: I'm limited to using Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0.