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/*============================================================
**
** Enum:   FileShare
** 
** 
**
**
** Purpose: Enum describing how to share files with other 
** processes - ie, whether two processes can simultaneously
** read from the same file.
**
**
===========================================================*/

using System;

namespace System.IO {
    // Contains constants for controlling file sharing options while
    // opening files.  You can specify what access other processes trying
    // to open the same file concurrently can have.
    //
    // Note these values currently match the values for FILE_SHARE_READ,
    // FILE_SHARE_WRITE, and FILE_SHARE_DELETE in winnt.h
    // 
[Serializable]
[Flags]
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
    public enum FileShare
    {
        // No sharing. Any request to open the file (by this process or another
        // process) will fail until the file is closed.
        None = 0,
    
        // Allows subsequent opening of the file for reading. If this flag is not
        // specified, any request to open the file for reading (by this process or
        // another process) will fail until the file is closed.
        Read = 1,
    
        // Allows subsequent opening of the file for writing. If this flag is not
        // specified, any request to open the file for writing (by this process or
        // another process) will fail until the file is closed.
        Write = 2,
    
        // Allows subsequent opening of the file for writing or reading. If this flag
        // is not specified, any request to open the file for writing or reading (by
        // this process or another process) will fail until the file is closed.
        ReadWrite = 3,

        // Open the file, but allow someone else to delete the file.
        Delete = 4,

        // Whether the file handle should be inheritable by child processes.
        // Note this is not directly supported like this by Win32.
        Inheritable = 0x10,
    }
}