can we lock a directory?

Question

I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 to develop a console application. For file access, we can access file in exclusive mode which blocks other process/thread from access th

Answer 1

I think what you can do is set the directory's Access Control and then change it back when your done. Have a look here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.setaccesscontrol.aspx

Answer 2

If it is your own process that might interfere you can use a named Mutex to synchronize. It is very hard to keep out other processes, the usual approach is to evade to a temp (hidden) dir, do your work and copy/move the results back.