Clearify some comments for Windows filesystem

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Andrea Mazzoleni 2015-02-13 18:50:52 +01:00
parent 894cd5ee70
commit 162d049bb9
2 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -770,6 +770,11 @@ int lstat_sync(const char* file, struct windows_stat* st, uint64_t* physical)
*
* Use FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS to open directories (it's just ignored for files).
* Use FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT to open symbolic links and not the their target.
*
* Note that even with FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE,
* and FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS | FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT some paths
* cannot be opened like "C:\System Volume Information" resulting
* in error ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.
*/
h = CreateFileW(convert(file), 0, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS | FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT, 0);
if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {

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@ -193,7 +193,8 @@ int windows_rmdir(const char* file);
*
* It doesn't work for all kinds of files and directories.
* You must call it only for regular files.
* For example, "\System Volume Information" cannot be accessed.
* For example, "C:\System Volume Information" cannot be accessed
* with error ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.
*
* Note that instead lstat() works for all the files.
*/