Re: WIN32_RETRY_LOOP and opening read-only files for writing.

Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> WIN32_RETRY_LOOP tries in this case to open the file for writing, and
> gets an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED error. Now I know this error can mean lots
> of things, so I don't propose to drop it altogether. But can't we add
> a check that, if svn gets this error during file opening, it checks
> first if the file is read-only before retrying 100 times?
>
> I see we already do something similar in svn_io_remove_file.
>
> Remarks?

Makes sense to me. We're assuming, of course, that any time we find such a
file read-only that it isn't merely set that way temporarily by some other
process, but I think that's a fair assumption to make.

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