[darcs-users] Using Darcs for large projects

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 02:14:43PM +0200, Matteo Vaccari wrote:
> >The problem is that opened or mapped files cannot be removed, and since
> >it is the finalizer for FastPackedString that unmaps, we don't know when
> >it is possible to delete the file.
> 
> I don't know if it might be useful, but it is possible in Win32 to create a 
> file with the FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE option.  It does pretty much what 
> the name says.  

Can an existing file be modified to have this attribute? i.e. could I take
a file which may (or may not) be mmapped, and tell windows to delete it
when the mmap is closed?
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David Roundy
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