ReplaceFileW (was: Phoronix: Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP)

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at codeweavers.com> writes:

> I can't believe this, probably you misunderstood or misinterpreted something.
> ReplaceFile API needs to abide sharing and access rights rules which are known
> only to wineserver, and not known/available on the libc/kernel level.

Of course you need to call CreateFile to check sharing etc., but after
that the replacing should be done with link() and/or rename(), not by
copying the files. Essentially it should be done just like MoveFile.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org