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I am looking to ungracefully kill a program (Chrome) in Windows 7. Chrome has a read-lock on a .tmp file that I want to make a copy of. If I exit Chrome gracefully Chrome deletes the .tmp file as it exits.
How can I immediately kill the program without letting chrome delete my file?
It probably uses a WinAPI temporary file, so you can’t:
Check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363858%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
Specifying the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY attribute causes file systems to avoid writing data back to mass storage if sufficient cache memory is available, because an application deletes a temporary file after a handle is closed. In that case, the system can entirely avoid writing the data. Although it does not directly control data caching in the same way as the previously mentioned flags, the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY attribute does tell the system to hold as much as possible in the system cache without writing and therefore may be of concern for certain applications.
You’re best best is to try to copy the file while chrome is still running…
Or put a wrapper between chrome and WinAPI to override the CreateFile call so it doesn’t create it as a temporary file.