[Python-Dev] Python 2.5.1 (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue May 1 00:56:39 CEST 2007


After doing some research I found that it seems to be impossible to use CreateFile for a file that doesn't have SHAREREAD. I played with different combinations and with FLAGBACKUPSEMANTICS and nothing helped. However on Windows there's still a possibility to read attributes: use FindFirstFile. WIN32FINDDATA structure seems to have all the necessary fields (attributes, file times, size and full/short filename), and FindFirstFile doesn't care about sharing at all...

So what about GetFileAttributesEx? What are the conditions under which I can successfully invoke it?

Regards, Martin



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