[issue14243] tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile not particularly useful on Windows

[Piotr Dobrogost]

Piotr Dobrogost added the comment:

@sbt

> (...) and it seems that on Windows open() is more or less implemented
> as a wrapper of sopen(..., ..., SH_DENYNO, ...).

> So the only reason that trying to reopen a NamedTemporaryFile fails on
> Windows is because when we reopen we need to use O_TEMPORARY.

Could you elaborate on this? What's the relation between SH_DENYNO argument to sopen() and O_TEMPORARY flag?

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