What's the least invasive way to read a locked file in C# (perhaps in unsafe mode)?

Question

I need to read a Windows file that may be locked, but I don\'t want to create any kind lock that will prevent other processes from writing to the file.

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Answer 1

You can probably create a copy and read that, even if the file is locked.

Or maybe a StreamReader on a FileStream depending on how SQL opened the file?

new FileStream("c:\myfile.ext", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);