"Paul Monteiro" wrote:
> I'm using curl-7.19.7 to download a large file ~ 1.5GB. I
> scan a SFTP directory every 10 seconds and when the file
> is here i download the file.

So far it is clear.

> But when i download the file the size is not the same on
> the local and remote machine. It's because the remote
> file is copying from a slower hard disk. So the file is
> not full copied !

If possible, post a bit of the code you are using to
download the file with curl; else it is difficult understand
if your code is correct. For example: Are you using the
easy or the multi API? Does downloading with the "curl"
program work fine?

> The file must be locked by the system but not by the SFTP
> server !

This is unclear.

-- 
Marco Maggi
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