setup.exe and inuse files for X

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov@syntrex.com
Thu May 16 02:07:00 GMT 2002


Hello Robert,

Thursday, May 16, 2002, 10:59:27 AM, you wrote:

RC> Does this work on FAT too?

I don't know - its not clear from the documentation. Someone has to
test it on FAT. However this combined with an an call to
SetFileAttributes () before it should be sufficient.

Btw the snippet below is wrong - FILE_ATTRIBUTES_READONLY should be
removed from the call. I type too fast :(

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pavel Tsekov [mailto:ptsekov@syntrex.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:33 PM

RC> Ok here is how to fix this issues I've just tried it on my XP Home and
RC> it worked fine.

RC>     HANDLE h = CreateFile("test.c",
RC>                           DELETE,
RC>                           0, // We want it all :)
RC>                           NULL,
RC>                           OPEN_EXISTING,
RC>                           FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY /*to be compatible*/
                                     |
Bah, this here is an error ----------+
RC>                           | FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, NULL);
RC>     CloseHandle (h);



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