Hi Petr, On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Petr Rockai <[email protected]> wrote: > Petr Rockai <[email protected]> writes: > From my reading of MSDN, it seems that you can never use DeleteFile on open > files. However, you can create a new handle using FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE.
This is not really true: you can delete an open file but you cannot create another file with the same name or delete the parent directory until all the handles have been closed (FILE_SHARE_DELETE + DeleteFile behavior is very similar to DELETE_ON_CLOSE). The problem is that unfortunately this doesn't work with mmapped files. > If the file was open with FILE_SHARE_DELETE previously, this should roughly > work. I haven't tested since it's difficult to work on win32 for me. > Salvatore, > do you think this is something you could find time to do at the sprint in > Vienna? I thought about doing it before Vienna, but unfortunately it seems harder than I initially thought: there are some cases where we try to delete the parent directory of a opened mmapped file. I already did some work that cut the failing tests on Windows by half, but there's more work to do! A 100% working Darcs 2.4 on Windows will probably be my Vienna task :). Salvatore > > Yours, > Petr. > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
