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Re: cygwin-1.5.4-1 breaks fetchmail on Win9x (Pierre can you comment?)


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:38:08PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>This is what I see on Win98/Me:
>- DELETE_ON_CLOSE works if the file is not yet opened.
>- If it is opened for writing, CreateFile (DELETE_ON_CLOSE) fails and the
>  file is eventually put on the delete queue, at least if it is local.
>  Why not if it's remote?

You can't assume that an access denied on a remote share means "sharing
violation".  If you put something into the delete queue that can't ever
be deleted, then, well...  If you do get a sharing violation on a remote
share then it should be put into the delete queue.

cgf

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