Re: Locking files for CLASH_DETECTION now supported on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:41:34 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:05:15 -0800
> > From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> > CC: address@hidden
> > 
> > On 02/25/2013 08:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:> 
> > 
> > > On Windows, as long as a file is open, no
> > > other application can write to it or remove the file.
> > 
> > Is this true even if the file is network-mounted via NFS or CIFS?
> 
> It is true if the other process runs on the same machine, I think.

Actually, I see that this is generally true only for deleting and
renaming a file that is open.  If we want to prevent other writers or
readers, we need to open the file with special flags.