CBFS Connect 2020 .NET Edition

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FireAllOpenCloseEvents Property

Whether to fire events for all file open/close operations, or just the first and last.

Syntax

public bool FireAllOpenCloseEvents { get; set; }
Public Property FireAllOpenCloseEvents As Boolean

Default Value

False

Remarks

This property specifies when the component should fire the CreateFile/OpenFile and CleanupFile/CloseFile events.

When this property is disabled (default), the component won't fire CreateFile/OpenFile for a file if there is already another handle open for it. Similarly, the CleanupFile/CloseFile events won't be fired unless the handle being closed is the last handle open for the file in question. This behavior results in better overall performance since the number of event firings is minimized, but there are some drawbacks as well:

  • If the file is only opened for reading initially, and then another process opens it for writing, the application won't be notified about the new mode, and may not be prepared to respond to the "unexpected" WriteFile events that will arrive should the second process start writing to the file. (Such an application may be able to mitigate this issue by always opening the file data from the backend store in read-write mode.)
  • The HandleInfo parameter of various events has no effect; they carry handle-specific information that isn't accessible to the application if this property is disabled.

When this property is enabled, the component fires the CreateFile/OpenFile and CleanupFile/CloseFile events every time a file handle is opened or closed.

This table shows when events will fire based on how this property is set:

Operation on FileDisabledEnabled
1. Opened by process A X X
2. Opened by process B X
3. Closed by process B X
4. Opened by process C X
5. Closed by process A X
6. Closed by process C X X

Note: This property cannot be changed after a virtual drive is created, and cannot be changed within events.

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