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Re: dealing with removing open files



> I just noticed some strange behavior while using rm that i suspect is the
> fault of Windows and not of cygwin, but i thought i'd float it by here to
> make sure.

It's the best Cygwin can do with NT's file permissions.

NT won't let you delete an open file.  So, Cygwin just keeps a list of
files "to be deleted later", and checks that list whenever it closes
any file (hoping that closing the key file will now allow it to be
deleted).

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