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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:19:36PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com] > ><snip> > >> You're renaming an opened file. AFAIK, that particular problem is >> insurmountable in Windows. > >I do know that under some circumstances in NT it is possible to rename an >executable while it is running and therefore open and memory mapped. I have >not yet figured out what flags are used to open a file and still allow it to >be renamed. > >Since the opening of an executable occurs deep within the OS this may be a >red herring and the file open modes that are used to allow this may not be >available to an enduser application. > >A simple example of this is to create a simple C program, compile and step >into it in the debugger, then rename the EXE in Windows Explorer. This is >allowed, but if you attempt to delete the file in Explore, access is denied. > >The HandleEx and NTFilMon programs from Sysinternals showed that the >executable was in fact open while being debugged and renamed. Ok. I would appreciate it if someone would investigate this and discover exactly what needs to be done. cgf
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