[win32] Permission denied in fancy_rename

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 19:34 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> | On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 12:27 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> |>Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> |>>John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> |>>>Anyway, I think get_bytes/put_bytes is good, but we should think about
> |>>>the memory impact.
> |>>
> |>>Perhaps get_bytes/put_bytes should take/produce an iterable?  That would
> |>>ensure a low memory impact.
> |>>
> |>>Strings, files, and string iterators are all iterables of strings, and
> |>>we can special-case files and strings if we want.
> |>>
> |>>Aaron
> |>>
> |>
> |>You've been trying to get iterators for a while now, and this might just
> |>be the place for it.
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> |
> | How do you close an iterator ?
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> By invoking its close method, if it's a file-like object.  For other
> objects that can be used as iterators, it will vary.
> 
> Or, to put it another way, finalizing iterators isn't a responsibility
> of get_bytes.  It must be done in the calling code.

Because of our problems with open files on windows, I think we must
define the interface of the return value of get_bytes *so that* the
calling code can fulfil that responsibility.

Rob

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