[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions
Richard Oudkerk
shibturn at gmail.com
Fri Aug 2 10:10:32 CEST 2013
On 02/08/2013 12:59am, Victor Stinner wrote:
> On Windows, a file cannot be removed if at least one process opened
> it. If you create a temporary file, run a program, and delete the
> temporary file: the deletion fails if the program inherited the file
> and the program is not done before the deletion. Is this correct?
It depends whether the handles use FILE_SHARE_DELETE. The Python module
tempfile uses the O_TEMPORARY flag which implies FILE_SHARE_DELETE.
This means that the file *can* be deleted/moved while there are open
handles. Annoyingly the folder containing that file still cannot be
deleted while there are open handles.
--
Richard
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