Re: 3029 - Resource busy when opening IFS file

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> What does it exactly mean? The IFS is busy? That would be a bit soon
> for my taste; a tester just runs some scripts on just 3 PCs that FTP
> files to the system, about 2.000 files in total at the moment, size of
> about 3KB, containing 5 messages each, so we have 2.000 files with a
> total data of 6MB that have to be copied and 10.000 files that have to
> be splitted out of these 2.000. And in the process of that we do
> receive 3029 for the OPEN (no matter WRITE/READ) either 0 times, 1
> times or 2 times.
>

(quoting from the manual)

[EBUSY]
    Resource busy.

    An attempt was made to use a system resource that is not available at
    this time.

    The open sharing mode may conflict with another open of this file, or
    O_WRONLY or O_RDWR is specified and the file is checked out by another
    user.

My guess is that it's just a timing problem.   Your process is trying to
open a file for read/write when an existing process already has the file
open for read/write and hasn't yet closed it.

I assume that your system is designed to open the file, read/write that
file, and then close it immediately.   If so, that's why trying it again a
second later solves the problem.   It also explains why this happens only
rarely.



> Did anyone else receive this one? What do you do in your program when
> you receive it?

My application is an interactive app...  it just tells the user about the
problem, and the user tries again later.

>
> Just wait a second and try again? (That seems to work all the time).
> Or is there something to set, look at or ?

In your situation, I think I'd wait a second and try again (or perhaps
less than a second) Possibly have it try for 5 seconds, then give up...

Good Luck