On 02/08/2013 12:59am, Victor Stinner wrote:
On Windows, a file cannot be removed if at least one process opened it. If you create a temporary file, run a program, and delete the temporary file: the deletion fails if the program inherited the file and the program is not done before the deletion. Is this correct?
It depends whether the handles use FILE_SHARE_DELETE. The Python module tempfile uses the O_TEMPORARY flag which implies FILE_SHARE_DELETE. This means that the file *can* be deleted/moved while there are open handles. Annoyingly the folder containing that file still cannot be deleted while there are open handles.
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