Johannes Schindelin, Mon, Oct 15, 2007 03:22:53 +0200: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > The problem is that on Windows, you cannot keep a file open and delete > > > it at the same time. This is an issue in Windows' equivalent of VFS. > > > > > > A neat trick to work with temporary files without permission issues is > > > to open the file and delete it right after that. This does not work > > > on Windows. > > > > You can achieve the same thing on Windows with CreateFile() by setting > > the dwShareMode parameter to zero and setting the > > FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE attribute on dwFlagsAndAttributes. This > > results in a file that cannot be opened or read by any other process and > > that will be automatically deleted when all open handles are closed. > > Aha. So to support Windows, we have to wrap all sites that use that > trick, and special case that #ifdef __MINGW32__.
He misunderstood. It is not what you meant. You cannot remove the open file. What he talks about is removing the file after it is _closed_. Junk. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
