How to dirty read locked files

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Neil

Hi,

I'm writing a file utility and would like my program to at least try to read
a locked file like an open Microsoft Word document. I've seen other such
utilities that have an option whereby it attempts to open locked files, but
frankly I have no idea how they do it.

While I'm sure the answer probably requires P/Invoke, I have no idea what
API functions to call. I don't think CreateFile has an option to force open
locked files. Are other utilities that do this using memory mapped files
perhaps?

Thank you anyone for any hints and help!
 
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