On 08/01/2008, Bruce Richardson <itsbr...@workshy.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:24:43PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > Doesn't that have to do with the hidden files system attributes that > > windows uses? I have faint deja-vu feelings and remembrance that > > SysInternals had a utility for it to `fix' it. > > More hatefully, it is possible to create files on a windows filesystem > which you cannot then manipulate in any way. This is because some of > the core file manipulation api functions impose more stringent restrictions > on what is a legal filename than the file creation function does. The > idiot coders responsible for this seem to have assumed that files would > only ever be created via Windows Explorer. > > But this is creeping far away from SQL hate.
Cant you just use the createfile api with the delete on close flag set? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
