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Re: dealing with removing open files
- To: jpollock at curl dot com
- Subject: Re: dealing with removing open files
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:16:17 -0500
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <NEBBJPGNBOKKDAEIIMIKAEDECDAA.jpollock@curl.com>
> 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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