The Old New Thing

The case of the asynchronous copy and delete

September 7, 2012 Sep 7, 2012 09/7/12

Raymond Chen

A customer reported some strange behavior in the and functions. They were able to reduce the problem to a simple test program, which went like this (pseudocode): When they ran the program, they found that sometimes the copy failed on the first try with error 5 () but if they waited a second and tried again, it succeeded. Similarly, ...