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| author | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-01-24 18:32:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2018-02-08 20:49:08 +0300 |
| commit | 62adfcd24d2b5b92fdb6627a7b5b0471b300f923 (patch) | |
| tree | f390c1c218fd822e501a4e91b956e9e2d2289e3c /libbutl/filesystem.mxx | |
| parent | b6ebda4aad5b007d5cd6942e6c5a2795a881020c (diff) | |
Make try_rmfile() to delete read-only files on Windows
Diffstat (limited to 'libbutl/filesystem.mxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | libbutl/filesystem.mxx | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbutl/filesystem.mxx b/libbutl/filesystem.mxx index 8ffbce9..a87e57b 100644 --- a/libbutl/filesystem.mxx +++ b/libbutl/filesystem.mxx @@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ LIBBUTL_MODEXPORT namespace butl // enum class rmfile_status {success, not_exist}; + // Note that on Windows the read-only attribute is reset prior to the file + // removal (as it can't otherwise be deleted). In such a case the operation + // is not atomic. + // LIBBUTL_SYMEXPORT rmfile_status try_rmfile (const path&, bool ignore_error = false); |