I have a job setup which looks for a file in the particular folder for every 20 min. If the particular file is found (say X.txt) it triggers a another job which correspond to the file (Jobname: XXX) and XXX job runs for 45 min. My question here is

1. Will the filewatcher job waits until the XXX job is finish
   (because the filewatcher scheduled to run for every 20 min.)???
   OR the filewatcher job runs for every 20 min though the kicked
   off job is unfinished.

Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance


Thanks,
Chandra

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Thanks,
Chandra

That depends on several things.

- What kind of application is this? Console, windows service, winforms?
- Is your code multithreaded? If you call job XXX with a blocking call, a file watch event isn't likely to get picked up because the process is blocked and windows messages can't get through.

By your description, it doesn't sound like you are actually using a live file watcher, but rather a scheduled file checker. This will have a different affect as well. If the system that schedules the executions can fire off two instances of the file checker, then you could have simultaneous processes running. You're going to need to provide more information in order for us to guess what will happen.

Wouldn't it be easier to just do some testing? Instead of scheduling for 20 minutes, how about 1. Make a "job" that runs for 1 minute and 30 seconds and see what happens.

-Peter
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