'Executable reading itself

I need to read data added to the end of an executable from within that executable .
On win32 I have a problem that I cannot open the .exe for reading. I have tried CreateFile and std::ifstream.
Is there a way of specifying non-exclusive read access to a file that wasn't initially opened with sharing.

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c++winapifile


Solution 1:[1]

We do this in one of our projects. What's the problem with it? If the EXE is running, then it's already held open for reading, and you can continue to open it read-only multiple times. I just checked our code, we just use:

HANDLE file=CreateFile(filename, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);

This works without problem on all versions of 32- and 64-bit Windows to date.

Solution 2:[2]

I have no problem opening the executable image of a process using either of these statements:

FILE* f = fopen( fname, "rb");

hFile = CreateFile( fname, FILE_READ_DATA, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);

What's your code?

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Solution 1 Head Geek
Solution 2 Michael Burr

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