> > i've installed Filemon=20
> > (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html)
> > now. this gives more insight what happens to the file.
> > ...
> > D:\DB\PostgreSQL-8.2\data\base\3964774\6422806 DELETE PEND Options:=20
> > Open
> > Access: 0012019F
>=20
> This is quite interesting, because it says that Filemon knows=20
> how to distinguish a "delete pending" error from other=20
> errors. If we could do that, then my prior worries about=20
> ignoring all EACCES errors would go away. What's it looking=20
> at exactly?
filemon is a kernel mode filter driver. So it's looking at kernel-only
datastructures. AFAIK, there is no way to see that from userspace.
//Magnus