On 25 May 2016 at 19:48, dandl <da...@andl.org> wrote: > This particular program is run as part of a series of > test cases, and the setup for the test involves deleting the database file > and then running the program in a batch file. Since about Windows 7 the > shell does not wait for a file to be deleted before launching the next > process, and if that process uses a file that is being deleted there is a > race condition to see what happens next. Specifically it seems to be > possible to open a "shadow copy" of the file which can persist while the > original file is deleted. I don't understand exactly what happens, but I > suspect this might be my problem. >
Having an sqlite connection open on a deleted file can also happen in posix land... Section 2.4 of "How to Corrupt" claims it can't happen on windows, I guess that's technically true as in this scenario the file was deleted before being opened, but it might be worth mentioning anyway (assuming the mechanism can be understood). -Rowan _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
