Re: [Qemu-devel] Location of temporary file for sectors on Windows (XP)

[malc]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, W. Craig Scratchley wrote:
>
> > On Windows (XP), however, I am getting files of the form s??? in the C:\
> > directory.  This is causing problems at SFU because student accounts don't
> > have write access to the C:\ directory and this seems to be causing Qemu to
> > immediately crash.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Seems like an issue which has not yet been addressed for Windows builds.
>
> Correct. The culprit is the function get_tmp_filename() in block.c. Since
> you cannot remove a file, but still keep a filehandle open (on windblows),
> there is no really nice way to go about that.

I would venture a gues that winblows is windows in which case you are not
really correct:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createfile.asp

FILE_SHARE_DELETE and all that

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