[Box Backup-dev] Win32 file attributes of locked files

[Chris Wilson]

Hi all (especially Charles),

I have a bit of a problem with file attributes on Win32. I want people to 
be able to exclude files like pagefile.sys which are locked, and avoid 
the usual warnings in the event log whenever we can't open a file for 
some reason.

At the moment, people have to specify either ExcludeFile or ExcludeDir in 
the Box config, but I can't find a way to find out if such a file is 
really a file, or a directory. Even GetFileAttributes() returns a sharing 
violation on pagefile.sys.

What can I do? Is there a magic API call that does work? Should I check 
against both exclude lists, and exclude it without errors if either list 
matches?

Cheers, Chris.
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