Re: Win32 rename()/unlink() questions

Mike Mascari wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I don't think we are not going to be supporting Win9X so there isn't an
> > issue there.  We will be supporting Win2000/NT/XP.
> > 
> > I don't understand FILE_SHARE_DELETE.  I read the description at:
> > 
> >     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp
> > 
> > but I don't understand it:
> > 
> >     FILE_SHARE_DELETE - Windows NT/2000/XP: Subsequent open operations on
> >     the object will succeed only if delete access is requested.
> 
> I think that's a rather poor description. I think it just means 
> that if the file is opened once via CreateFile() with 
> FILE_SHARE_DELETE, then any subsequent CreateFile() calls will 
> fail unless they too have FILE_SHARE_DELETE. In other words, if 
> one of us can delete this file while its open, any of us can.

I don't understand what that gets us.

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