Hi,

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, malc wrote:

> 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

I cannot access that link...

> FILE_SHARE_DELETE and all that

... but having had lots of fun with win32 I gather this is not really 
backwards compatible? Or, alternatively, it fails on FAT?

Ciao,
Dscho



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