Re: TAP tests aren't using the magic words for Windows file access

On 11/4/19 10:41 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 10:53:00PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That is, TestLib::slurp_file is failing to read a file. Almost
>> certainly, "permission denied" doesn't really mean a permissions
>> problem, but failure to specify the file-opening flags needed to
>> allow concurrent access on Windows. We fixed this in pg_ctl
>> itself in commit 0ba06e0bf ... but we didn't fix the TAP
>> infrastructure. Is there an easy way to get Perl on board
>> with that?
> If we were to use Win32API::File so as the file is opened in shared
> mode, we would do the same as what our frontend/backend code does (see
> $uShare):
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Win32API::File

Hmm. What would that look like? (My eyes glazed over a bit reading that
page - probably ENOTENOUGHCAFFEINE)

cheers

andrew

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