Hello, * On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:45:12PM +0000 Dave Korn wrote: > This is Cygwin correctly implementing the POSIX "can delete a file while > retaining a handle to its contents" semantic, followed by the known Cygwin > problem (a restiction of the underlying windows OS) that you can't (as you can > in POSIX) create a new file in place of the old one while you keep that handle > to the old one's contents.
This restriction could be solved by renaming the file before deleting it. The only problem I see with this approach: What file name to choose for the rename operation? Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://opencbm.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
