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On Aug 16 07:41, Achim Gratz wrote:there's a race somewhere between calls from the Cygwin DLL and Windows file locking functions.
Cygwin does not use Windows mandatory locking. The locking is entirely implemented within the Cygwin DLL and is only advisory, as is befitting for a POSIX envionment.
If you try to use the same file with a non-Cygwin tool using Windows locking in parallel with a Cygwin tool, you will get into trouble. The mandatory Windows locking will always win and the Cygwin tool will fail.
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