On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 08:32:48 UTC, Josphe Brigmo wrote:
On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 04:48:09 UTC, Norm wrote:
On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 23:25:24 UTC, Josphe Brigmo
wrote:
I am trying to remove a file
remove(filename);
and I get an access denied!
I can remove it from explorer just fine.
I am able to remove other files but there should be no reason
why the file can't be removed in this case.
All I am doing to mess with the file is reading it's contents
right before to do a file compare(I am removing the file if
it is a duplicate).
Does read() lock the file at all? (maybe the lock is
persisting just long enough to make the remove fail?
Since I can delete the file outside the program and since the
filename is valid(I copied and pasted it to remove it to
check), This seems like a D problem.
Do you have the file open when you call remove? If so close
the file handle before the remove call. If you can post a
stripped down version of your code it would also help.
bye,
Norm
No, I use read, there is no file handles. Pointless to post
code because it won't offer much. Also, I have security
privileges.
I simply read the file to compare it's contents then I try to
remove the file if it had the same contents and it says it is
invalid. I also, of course, check that it exist and is a file.
This is all I'm doing that is related to file reading and I
cannot remove the file(but can read it and such).
So, I'm really wondering if read locks the file but doesn't
release it in time.
Using lockHunder shows the file isn't locked but the directory
is(Probably because I'm iterating through it.
Seems it is an error with remove, using executeShell works fine:
auto ls = executeShell(`del /F /Q "`~fn~`"`);
which does not give an error but remove(fn) does.
Seems remove is broke.
It's not necessarily a permission issue, but might be an issue
with the files attributes.
If you're on Windows try this:
setAttributes(filename, 0x80);
0x80 means normal.
You can always try to retrieve the attributes using
getAttributes(filename) and see what you retrieve and if there
are anything odd going on.
D really needs an enum of the file attributes on windows and the
examples are poor, because they only show examples related to
Posix lol.
