Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > And actually, when I look at the API docs, our case now seems to be > documented. Or am I misreading our situation. I have: > "If you call CreateFile on a file that is pending deletion as a result > of a previous call to DeleteFile, the function fails. The operating > system delays file deletion until all handles to the file are closed. > GetLastError returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED." We are not calling CreateFile ... we're just trying to open the thing. regards, tom lane