[Python-Dev] PEP 446: Open issues/questions

[Richard Oudkerk]

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