Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/10/11:58:28
Hey, Luke
You can't do that on windows :) It doesn't allow
to remove a file while you hold an open handle
to it.
Btw look at this sample of using MoveFile API, which
is used to implement the rename call:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/filesio_9bhh.asp
Hope this helps.
Luke Bakken wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been fighting LPRng for about a month now trying to get it working on
> cygwin, and have finally succeeded. Hooray!
>
> However, I think I have discovered a bug in the following situation, which
> occurs frequently in LPRng:
>
> Open a status file (named lpq in LPRng's case) for WR, and get a lock on
> it with fcntl (call it lockfd).
>
> Create a tempfile (tempfd), stuff it with info, and close tempfd.
>
> Rename tempfile to status file - this causes error "Permission Denied".
>
> Close lockfd.
>
> To get LPRng to work sucessfully, I had to move the "close lockfd"
> *before* attempting to rename the tempfile. I have written a small test
> program (composed mainly of code straight from LPRng) to verify the above
> behavior (locktest.c) and it does reproduce the problem as it occurs in
> LPRng on cygwin. The test program (as well as LPRng) both work fine on my
> OpenBSD machine.
>
> Attached is the output of cygcheck -s -v -r as well as the test program.
>
> Thanks! If people are interested in LPRng for Cygwin, please let me know
> - I'm now going to get the setuid stuff working.
>
> Luke Bakken
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