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Using FileDispositionInformationEx (and therefore flags like FILE_DISPOSITION_POSIX_SEMANTICS and FILE_DISPOSITION_IGNORE_READONLY_ATTRIBUTE) is only supported on NTFS, so the comptime Windows version range check is not enough to determine whether or not the NtSetInformationFile will succeed. This commit makes DeleteFile always try using FileDispositionInformationEx first, but if INVALID_PARAMETER is received (which is the status that occurs when the filesystem doesn't support FileDispositionInformationEx), then it will fallback and try calling NtSetInformationFile with FileDispositionInformation. This keeps NTFS as fast as it was before, since it will do at most 1 NtSetInformationFile call, but on non-NTFS filesystems (e.g. FAT32), DeleteFile may need to do 2 NtSetInformationFile calls. Closes #16497
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.