C++/Win32: How to wait for a pending delete to complete

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• Workable solution: sbi\'s answer
• Explanation for what really happens: Hans\'s answer
• Explanation for why OpenFile do

Answer 1

According to [1], you could use NtDeleteFile to avoid the asynchronous nature of DeleteFile. Also [1] gives some details on how DeleteFile works.

Unfortunately the official documentation on NtDeleteFile [2] doesn't mention any particular details on this issue.

[1] Undocumented functions of NTDLL

[2] ZwDeleteFile function