Luke Blanshard wrote:
> "D.J. Heap" <dj@shadyvale.net> wrote:
>
>>After some experimentation prompted by Brane, I found that renaming
>>while the file was still open did not work for me (testing with AV
>>software which easily recreates the problem we see) -- that is, the
>>algorithm is fine and works if other apps don't interfere. But the AV
>>software doesn't even wait for a close before it opens the file (without
>>FILE_SHARE_DELETE) so we can't rename it.
>
>
> What if svn opens the file exclusively? That ought to prevent anyone
> else from messing with it, right?
>
> Luke
Yes, but since Windows doesn't have a rename or delete by handle API,
these operations fail with a sharing violation even for the process that
did the open. I had the same thought and tried it.
DJ
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Received on Wed Oct 29 17:33:10 2003