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Subject: RE: Re[5]: setup.exe and inuse files for X
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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:58:31 +1000
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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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One thing I'm not clear on - are both calls -required-?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:52 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com; cygwin-xfree AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject: Re[5]: setup.exe and inuse files for X
> 
> 
> Ok, I've tested it on my WinXP Home on NTFS, FAT and FAT32. 
> The following snippet removes the file no matter the 
> filesystem (the Get/SetFileAttributes is required for FAT/FAT32 only):
> 
>     HANDLE hFile;
>     DWORD dwAttr = GetFileAttributes ("test.dat");
>     SetFileAttributes ("test.dat", dwAttr & ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY);
>     hFile = CreateFile ("test.dat", DELETE, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING,
>           FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, NULL);
>     CloseHandle (hFile);
> 
> RC>> Does this work on FAT too?
> 
> PT> I don't know - its not clear from the documentation. 
> Someone has to 
> PT> test it on FAT. However this combined with an an call to 
> PT> SetFileAttributes () before it should be sufficient.
> 
>