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

I think this is just by poor design in the file system. I have seen the same problem when I worked with communication ports, opening/closing them.

Unfortunately I think the simplest solution would be to just retry to create the file a number of times if you get an INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE. GetLastError() might also give you a better way of detecting this particular INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE.

I would have preferred overlapped I/O, but their CloseHandle() and DeleteFile() don't handle overlapped operations :(