Oh, and can you please provide as a patch+ changelog? Cheers, Rob
> -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:52 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re[5]: setup.exe and inuse files for X > > > Ok, I've tested it on my WinXP Home on NTFS, FAT and FAT32. > The following snippet removes the file no matter the > filesystem (the Get/SetFileAttributes is required for FAT/FAT32 only): > > HANDLE hFile; > DWORD dwAttr = GetFileAttributes ("test.dat"); > SetFileAttributes ("test.dat", dwAttr & ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY); > hFile = CreateFile ("test.dat", DELETE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, > FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, NULL); > CloseHandle (hFile); > > RC>> Does this work on FAT too? > > PT> I don't know - its not clear from the documentation. > Someone has to > PT> test it on FAT. However this combined with an an call to > PT> SetFileAttributes () before it should be sufficient. > >