From 1ec9086829e0ffc63c8e1ffa52e71e5b73877a0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Otis Gospodnetic <otis@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:59:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Added public static boolean isLocked(String) method. PR:
 Obtained from: Submitted by:	Colin Britton Reviewed by:	otis

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk@149690 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java
index fdbd026ef3a..b71e435f1d6 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java
@@ -310,6 +310,16 @@ abstract public class IndexReader {
 	return directory.fileExists("write.lock");
     }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns <code>true</code> iff the index in the named directory is
+   * currently locked.
+   * @param directory the directory to check for a lock
+   * @throws IOException if there is a problem with accessing the index
+   */
+    public static boolean isLocked(String directory) throws IOException {
+	return (new File(directory, "write.lock")).exists();
+    }
+
    /**
     * Forcibly unlocks the index in the named directory.
     * <P>