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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2004 12:35:09 -0400
To:	C Wells <s2audi AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: tail and win file handling
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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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