Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:39:44 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Frank Heckenbach <address@hidden>
> 
> Indeed, as you suggested earlier, it might be useful to use the main
> part of open_tmpfile() (i.e. without the fdopen()), though we'd have
> to manually remove the file then. On Unix, we could unlink it right
> after opening (since we never need the filename again, unlike the
> other users of open_tmpfile()). On Windows, though, this might need
> to be delayed, AIUI.

You can do that on Windows as well, just not if you use open/creat to
create the file.  You need to use the Windows file APIs with options
that are not exposed to Posix-style functions like open.