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Re: tail and win file handling
At 09:31 AM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
>I am sorry if this has been covered before, but I was
>wondering if there is work around (probably not ;-(
>
>In unix you can do the following
>tail -f /somefile
>in another session
>rm -f /somefile
>echo OK > /somefile
>
>of course the tail stops working, but the file is
>recreated
>
>On a cygwin box
>tail -f c:/somefile
>in another session
>rm -f c:/somefile
>echo OK > c:/somefile
>'Access is denied'
>
>So obviously the tail puts a lock on the file,
>preventing an application from creating a new one,
>which in my case breaks the application. Any thoughts
>about how work around this, given I need to tail the
>file ?
Your going to have to use a different file name. Windows doesn't
support the same semantics in this case. The emulation Cygwin provides
is as close as you're going to get (which ain't that close but... ;-) ).
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