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Subject: RE: feasability of a portable fuser-type thing in APR?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:54:35 +0200
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Thread-Topic: feasability of a portable fuser-type thing in APR?
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From: "Trent Nelson" <tnelson@onresolve.com>
To: "Tyler MacDonald" <tyler@yi.org>,
	"Colm MacCarthaigh" <colm@stdlib.net>
Cc: <dev@apr.apache.org>


> From: Tyler MacDonald [mailto:tyler@yi.org]
> > Colm MacCarthaigh <colm@stdlib.net> wrote:
> > > Each kernel has its own mechanism for this, ranging from trawling
> > > memory directly to iterating through /proc/, but I can't off-hand
> > > of an operating system which doesn't provide this functionality.
On
> > > windows I think you need admin privs even to scan your own
processess
> > > though.
>=20
> Colm,
> 	Something just occured to me. In windows, if you try to move or
> delete a file that is in use, it stops you. Is there a completely
bonine
> action one can do to a file in windows that causes the same error?
>=20
> 	I'm thinking that without admin powers, this code may still be
> able to detect if a file is in use at all.

Tyler, have you made any more progress on this?  I looked into it a bit,
and it doesn't seem like there's any
try-delete-it-to-see-if-it's-in-use-without-actually-deleting-it action
available on Windows.

If you've made some progress on the Linux/Unix side of the interface,
I'd be interested in contributing to the Windows side.


	Trent.