Johannes Schindelin wrote: > The problem is that on Windows, you cannot keep a file open and delete it > at the same time. This is an issue in Windows' equivalent of VFS. > > A neat trick to work with temporary files without permission issues is to > open the file and delete it right after that. This does not work on > Windows. You can achieve the same thing on Windows with CreateFile() by setting the dwShareMode parameter to zero and setting the FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE attribute on dwFlagsAndAttributes. This results in a file that cannot be opened or read by any other process and that will be automatically deleted when all open handles are closed. > I think Alex means this: you can have C:\a\b\c and D:\a\b\c. So depending > on which drive you are, you mean one or the other. Just comparing the > paths is not enough. This just means that you have to consider the drive letter as part of the filename. > > > - no real "mmap" (which kills perfomance and complicates code) > > > > You only need mmap because you are accustomed to use it on GNU/Linux. > > Yes. And we rely on the performance very much. Windows may not call it mmap() but it most certainly has memory-mapped file IO: <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366781.aspx#file_mapping_functions>. Brian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
