Re: Wonky rename semantics on Windows

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 5:43 PM Thomas Munro
<thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Googling led me to some recently posted clues on SO and elsewhere
> about a flag FILE_RENAME_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS which can be used with
> SetFileInformationByHandle(), that wasn't mentioned in the earlier
> -hackers threads.  I tried it on AppVeyor.  It appears to work, even
> when both source and target file name exist and both files currently
> have an open handle.  Perhaps they needed this for the Windows 10 WSL
> stuff?

Erm, looks like I posted too soon.  My 5 minute hack didn't check the
return code correctly (it's zero for failure).  Oh well.  I don't
actually plan to investigate this any further myself, being
non-Windows-enabled, but it looks like there might still be something
promising here.

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Thomas Munro
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