Re: [PATCH 3/3] compat/mingw: support POSIX semantics for atomic renames

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2024, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID: <d6669573-d5cc-4ad9-b248-95bda089bc6c@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZxnpitkbPPNTLuGT@pks.im>

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, at 08:30, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

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>> s/FILE_RENAME_POSIX_SEMANICS/FILE_RENAME_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS/
>
> No, this is actually intentional. There are two different flags:
>
>   - FILE_RENAME_POSIX_SEMANTICS is what ntifs.h exposes and what I've
>     been linking for documentation. This flag cannot be used though with
>     `FileRenameInfoEx`.
>
>   - FILE_RENAME_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS is what needs to be used with
>     `FileRenameInfoEx`, but it is undocumented.
>

I made a copy–paste mistake. :P I should have just pointed out this (missing T):

    _SEMANICS

So you wrote it the correct-looking way in your first bullet point here.

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