fileutils-4.0-3

[egor duda]

Hi!

Wednesday, 13 June, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.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@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19