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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:21:59 +0400
From: egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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Subject: Re: fileutils-4.0-3
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Hi!

Wednesday, 13 June, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin AT cygwin DOT com wrote:

CV> Typically it's the other way around. If a Win32 application opens
CV> a file using the `CreateFile' call, it has exclusive access to the
CV> file while it's opened. If the application want's to share the
CV> file with other apps, it can do that by giving additional flags
CV> to `CreateFile' (FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_SHARE_WRITE). Cygwin's
CV> open(2) call uses these flags by default.

well, CreateFile() accepts 0 as second argument, which is what we
need-- just query information no matter if anyone opened file in
DENYALL mode. i've just tested it on nt4.0 -- it works fine.

the only question is whether we should add new parameter to
fhandler::open(), say 'int cygwin_flags', or define new flag in
fcntl.h? for me, the first one looks preferable.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19