[krbdev.mit.edu #1301] profile library update leaves brief window with no file on Windows

Jeffrey Altman via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Feb 17 10:38:07 EST 2004


[raeburn - Thu Jun  5 20:00:20 2003]:

> Looks fixed for UNIX; can we do anything better for Windows?

On an NTFS file system we could probably use a similar trick.  We can
use the CreateHardLink() call to create a temp name for the original
file; then CreateHardLink() the new file to the original name; and
finally delete the new file.

However, this will only work on NTFS.  

- Jeff



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